Tipong Colliery 2005
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- Tipong Colliery is in an isolated area of the state of Assam, NE India. Coal is transported from the mine, 2.5km down the valley by a 2' gauge tramway to the transshipment point. Filmed November 2005.
In 2005 two steam locomotives were active:
'David' a diminutive Bagnall 0-4-0 saddle tank built c1924. The exact identity of this locomotive is uncertain.
Four ex Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, B class 0-4-0 saddle tanks were present. Only number 789, built by the North British Locomotive Company in 1914 was serviceable. One other was under repair the others in scrap condition. They were all transferred to Tipong in 1968.
The mines were closed following accidents about three years after my visit but the latest news (March 2012) is that they are now working again and steam is available for use.
Music from the album Snake Charmer "Indian Tour" by Mirabar.
Tracks: Introduction, Rickshaw Walk, Holy Cow Bells, Seventh Wonder
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Hi my name is Anu Saini.iam living in Delhi now.my father was engineer in tipong colliery .we lived here for many years .my whole childhood was spend here .its a fantastic place .my father name was Mr H.R.Saini.This place is very close to my heart
Did he see these engines everyday
Yes your family was to live in Tipong (Dhalai) ur father had a FEIT car, your mom was a good clasical dancer n use to teach some clasical dance to few kids over there. It must be in 1980 - 82.
Did your father know TB Pradhan or YB Shrestha? This was prior to 1977
If you guys have old pictures.. Do share. avyoct92@gmail.com
You show the locomotives, but you also show the environment, people, children, athmosphere. You have also chosen great music. I love that.
Fascinating how everything seems to be stuck together with some "welding" and barely staying in one piece and still working, that must be the worst looking B class in service.
That B class is a surprisingly long locomotive for a 2' gauge 0-4-0.
Very atmospheric film, thanks for uploading.
That's very interesting the four ex-Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Locomotives have found their way to a lower elevation . Fascinating video,thank you so much for sharing.
🇧🇷 BRASIL- Bhte/MG, 06/02/2022. Como tive o privilégio de " pegar " traseira em maria-fumaça, vendo essas mini fumaças e também mini locomotivas a diesel, vagoezinhos, viajo com êsse pessoal e volto na minha infância. Obrigado pelas postagens.
Bahut yad aate hai ye din mere papa bhi isi jagah kam karte the ham log yahi rahte the
Sorry, my english is ugly, but this video is a lot of work, very well done, sounds good, and without ugly komentars. I love it.
I was Born and raised in Tipong. Thanks for making this video!
Thanks, I am pleased you enjoyed it.
I travelled on this track first time in April 1958 while undergoing vocational training along with three other batch ,mates from Indian School of Mines ,Dhanbad-they were P.N.Tewari, P. L. Ralhan (late) and Mahesh Prasad Singh. Subsequently between years 1974-1990 I was regular visitor to this mine associated as I was as mine planner from Cmpdil ,Ranchi. -this mine was opened by A British company -Assam railway and trading co in early 20th century and came under Coal India in 1972 nationalisation. Special mining technique of Descending Shield method was introduced with Russian help in 1980''s to efficiently recover coal from almost vertical coal seams.
thank you for the history of this mine. I hope my video brought back some memories for you.
This is where we come from best place on the planet
My father ran the mine before nationalization
@@TruthBeTold121212 where are you from?
@@LinuxLuddite I live in the US now. Are you from that area?
Every single frame of this video is about magic of life... we screwed all up in our "modern" world
100% right
yes my friend......i believe you have touched on something worth thinking about..........
This is about EARNING A LIVING and not just having a living..... Everyone should have to work with their backs for at least half their lives...... Building character is what this kind of life brings.... My hats off to you people !!
this is why railroad steam engines were created for in the first place . haulling mining carts. . thanks . music is cool too
How that loco never left the rails on that bend as it was approaching the unloading point is a mystery to me !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Imo it's a boiler with circular firebox, because there's a firedoor with a lid underneath for the removal of the ashes, this arangement being typical for Bagnall Lancashire type boilers.
Thus the ashes have to be cleaned from inside the cab.
It seems to me that these people are using pick axes to remove the coal from the seams, because there's no mechanisation to see apart from the loco's themselves, the way colieries in Western Europe operated 100 years ago!
And this is where all the English equipment ended up a 100 years later....🙄
Publicado em 16 de out de 2012
Tipo Colliery está em uma área isolada do estado de Assam, nordeste da Índia. O carvão é transportado a partir da mina, 2,5 quilômetros abaixo do vale por um tramway calibre 2 'para o ponto de transbordo. Filmado novembro 2005.Oliveira Neto> Brasil 2016
Tipong is my heart.
Thanks George - a belter! Never been to India . . . Alan
Hi Thanks for sharing... really enjoyed it!
David just keeps on plodding.
Boiler certificate? What do you want that for?
+CGT867 I doubt if they have even heard of those, and if they had probably couldn't read one anyway. - Did you notice the front of 'David' all the fireclay around the smoke-box door, probably hasn't been opened in years.
+Christopher Lovelock It is not fireclay, just ordinary mud. It is replaced every time they open the door to clean out the ash. The smokebox doors are usually a bit distorted, the mud is to keep them airtight.
+blackthorne57 My apologies, I was a little presumptuous in commenting before I had seen the whole , (if I may add, excellent video of yours). Whilst browsing 'You Tube' later in the evening I came across a short film of 'David' in a totally different livery - Black Saddle Tank, Green around the 'Cab' and with a large Yellow star on the smoke-box door -do you know anything about this ???? They seemed very generous with the white paint and yet everything else had an air of 'dilapidation' about it, - in one part even a rock laying between the track had a 'dollop' of white on it.
789's got a hell of a smokebox door.
Just fantastic.
Superb
Thanks
Very interesting!!
Greetings from Vienna
Peter
Does david have a lancashire boiler, or a regular stephenson type?
Because I see the firedoor arangement is that of like a lancashire boiler, very interesting! Wonderful footage!
...BRAVO!*****
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing........=)
Amazing
Sempre admirei as ferrovias dos inicios,
Digo aqui no Brasil foi a Lumber Nois dizia-mos a Lumbre.2016
that little engine at 18:15 does not sound happy in the slightest
Yes, they were in a very poor state of repair, it was a miracle they ran at all. The staff had spent all night repairing the B class so we could see it run.
@@blackthorne57 did you understand what the drivers said or did you have someone on hand who was a translator?
@@eliotreader8220 As this is India there was no trouble finding somebody able to speak at least some English especially among the more senior staff.
Wonder!
Hi admin, Greetings from Tipong.
May I know how did you get this video and can we connect somewhere else?
I shot the video while on a visit with a company called FarRail Tours. I do not have any other videos shot at Tipong.
Do you have photos
@@avishakbiswas1573 This link should take you to a few photos I shot at Tipong in 2005. This is all the photos I have.
I hope the link opens for you flic.kr/s/aHBqjADGAp
I am sure it is not a Lancashire boiler. Bagnalls did use a marine type boiler known as a "Bull Head" with a circular marine type firebox. The drawings of small Bagnall locos I have seen all include conventional tubes. I am not an authority on loco boilers so these comments are subject to confirmation by an expert.
What happened to the loco's after the mine closed.? Silly question I expect as I fear I know the answer - (scrapped) - but there is always a glimmer of hope. ...........
I think your glimmer of hope is reality. It appears they still exist and are in good condition in Assam. I hope this link works as it will explain all tinyurl.com/zvoez4a
If the link fails, search for 'jungleideas' an organisation that promotes NE India to the world. They organise tours to Assam that include Tipong Colliery and India's only coal museum at Margherita. Their slightly chaotic website has current photos of the locos.
Thank-you for that 'link', - I managed to get it up - as you say a little crazy but I mastered it in the end. I have a strong feeling I know where I will be 'holidaying' this year, if I go I will let you know. Isn't their a museum in India that has some weird sort of 'mono-rail' that had been in a shed 'bricked-up' for most of its life - used to belong to some Rajah or something like that.?
13:16 What train is that?
+NoFaceMan6 If you mean the small loco with the tall chimney, black saddle tank and blue cab side, it is an Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST built about 1924.
Now you see why unleaded gas and clean diesel has dominated the wests transportation sector.
I am not sure the relevance of your comment. What is coming out of the chimney is mostly water vapour condensing in the cool Assam air.
Are they wooden smokebox doors?
+stanlou4321 No the smokebox doors are steel, just a bit rusty.
Where are the locos now?
It appears they still exist and are in good condition in Assam. I hope this link works as it will explain all tinyurl.com/zvoez4a If the link fails, search for 'jungleideas' an organisation that promotes NE India to the world. They organise tours to Assam that
include Tipong Colliery and India's only coal museum at Margherita.
Schon die Musik kotzt mich voll an.
marine boiler