Slogging up the grade

The Udaipur Sleeper of November 25, 1995, heads over Ord Viaduct in Rajasthan banked by Indian Railways YP metre-gauge pacific No. 2150. The banker is chucking it out and is probably not in very good nick. At the time we thought that the train engine was a YG 2-8-2 but, looking at the photograph it seems to be another YP. By a process of elimination of what was on Udaipur RPZ Depot when we got there, I have worked out that it was probably YP2508.

We had travelled up on the previous night's sleeper, headed by YP2825, on which I travelled on the footplate from Ahmedabad to Zawar, where the banker (YP2840) was attached.