Dangerous Diesel in Desert | Trains in Great Indian Desert | Thar Desert | The Desert Train | NWR

Dangerous Diesel in Desert | Trains in Great Indian Desert | Thar Desert | The Desert Train | NWR.

1) 19226 Jammu Tawi - Jodhpur Express.
2) 22476 Coimbatore - Hisar AC SF Express.
3) 14888 Barmer - Rishikesh Express.
4) 12260 Bikaner - Sealdah AC Duronto Express.
5) 04789 Rewari - Bikaner Passenger Special (UnReserved).
6) 04790 Bikaner - Rewari Passenger Special (UnReserved).
7) 22473 Bikaner - Bandra Terminus SF Express.
8) 14888 Barmer - Rishikesh Express.
9) Light Locomotive Towards Bikaner junction.
10) 22632 Anuvrat AC SF Express.
11) 19226 Jammu Tawi - Jodhpur Express.
12) 14888 Barmer - Rishikesh Express.
13) 22738 Hisar - Secunderabad SF Express.
14) Spare rake of 15633 Bikaner - Guwahati Express.
15) 22476 Coimbatore - Hisar AC SF Express.
16) 14887 Rishikesh - Barmer Express.
17) 14708 Ranakpur Express.
18) Light Locomotive Towards Bikaner East Cabin.
19) 19720 Suratgarh - Jaipur Express.
20) 19225 Jodhpur - Jammu Tawi Express.
21) 12260 Bikaner - Sealdah AC Duronto Express.
22) 04789 Rewari - Bikaner Passenger Special (UnReserved).
23) 04790 Bikaner - Rewari Passenger Special (UnReserved).
24) Light Locomotive towards Bikaner Junction.
25) 22473 Bikaner - Bandra Terminus SF Express.
26) 14888 Barmer - Rishikesh Express.
27) 12259 Sealdah - Bikaner AC Duronto Express.
28) 14703 Jaisalmer - Lalgarh Express.

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. It is the world's 20th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.
About 85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and about 15% is in Pakistan.The Thar Desert is about 4.56% of the total geographical area of India. More than 60% of the desert lies in the Indian state of Rajasthan; the portion in India also extends into Gujarat, Punjab, and Haryana. The portion in Pakistan extends into the provinces of Sindh and Punjab (the portion in the latter province is referred to as the Cholistan Desert).
The northeastern part of the Thar Desert lies between the Aravalli Hills. The desert stretches to Punjab and Haryana in the north, to the Great Rann of Kutch along the coast, and to the alluvial plains of the Indus River in the west and northwest. Much of the desert area is covered by huge, shifting sand dunes that receive sediments from the alluvial plains and the coast. The sand is highly mobile due to the strong winds that rise each year before the onset of the monsoon. The Luni River is the only river in the desert.Rainfall is 100 to 500 mm (4 to 20 in) per year, almost all of it between June and September.
Saltwater lakes within the Thar Desert include the Sambhar, Kuchaman, Didwana, Pachpadra, and Phalodi in Rajasthan and Kharaghoda in Gujarat. These lakes receive and collect rainwater during monsoon and evaporate during the dry season. The salt comes from the weathering of rocks in the region.
Lithic tools belonging to the prehistoric Aterian culture of the Maghreb have been discovered in Middle Paleolithic deposits in the Thar Desert.
The climate is arid and subtropical. Average temperature varies with season, and extremes can range from near-freezing in the winter to more than 50º C in the summer months. Average annual rainfall ranges from 100 to 500 mm, and occurs during the short July-to-September southwest monsoon.
The desert has both a very dry part (the Marusthali region in the west) and a semidesert part (in the east) that has fewer sand dunes and slightly more precipitation.
The soil of the Thar Desert remains dry for much of the year, so it is prone to wind erosion. High-velocity winds blow soil from the desert, depositing some of it on neighboring fertile lands, and causing sand dunes within the desert to shift. To counteract this problem, sand dunes are stabilised by first erecting microwindbreak barriers with scrub material and then by afforestation of the treated dunes - planting the seedlings of shrubs (such as phog, senna, and castor oil plant) and trees (such as gum acacia, Prosopis juliflora, and lebbek tree). The 649-km-long Indira Gandhi Canal brings fresh water to the Thar Desert.It was built to halt any spreading of the desert into fertile areas.

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