The Great Indian Rail Journey

On Wednesday April 29 Chris Warby described his “visit to a war zone” to fellow members of Leighton Buzzard Photographic Club.

He related the tale of his “holiday” in India in 2025, with his wife, when they expected to make six rail journeys and visit places they had not visited on two previous holidays in India.

Unfortunately, a war between India and Pakistan was just starting and their tour party had to be evacuated from the Attari–Wagah border area when fighting broke out there (with missiles, drones, dogfights, tanks, blackouts, etc).  The Wagar Border Crossing is the primary land crossing between the two nations and remains closed.

In addition, four of the planned rail trips did not run and they were unable to visit some of the places on the planned tour.  So, the intended Great Indian Rail Journey was a trip to remember– but not for the right reasons!

Nevertheless, they still visited Delhi, Jaipur and the Amber Fort and Jantar Mantar observatory, the Taj Mahal, Ranthambore National Park, Amritsar and its spectacular Golden Temple, and the Jama Masjid Mosque.

And Chris was still able to take many wonderfully evocative pictures of these marvellous sights and other local colour.  His informative narrative was therefore richly illustrated with a large selection of these images.

We are always keen to share our passion for photography and we provide a warm welcome for new members at our meetings at Greenleas School on Derwent Road.  We run a varied programme of activities for photographers of all levels.  See our website at lbpc.org.uk for details and join us soon to unleash your own creativity.