Saturday, January 29, 2011

Welcome

Welcome to the Live Blog of the 6th Annual IRFCA Convention.

Dates: 5th & 6th February, 2011.

Time: 8AM onwards on Saturday, the 5th Feb 2011.

Venue: Zonal Railway Training Institute, Bhusaval, Maharashtra.




Updates of arrivals and check-ins of members and many interesting activities in the preparation of the Convention would also be updated here.

The Convention Program, attending delegates, maps of BSL and ZRTI area and contact numbers of Organising committee members are available on separate pages which can be accessed from the links above.

The original background image has been taken by Gowri Sankar and has been spiced up by Sachin and Lalam after I hounded them with a zillion requests!

So keep visiting for updates!

- Vrij

11 comments:

  1. Dear Dr. Saab !!

    Thanks for kicking of the action for BSL - 2011 !! As usual, you are like 'Sanjaya' of Mahabharata era. ( Who used to provide live commentaries from the Kurukshetra to people like Dhritharashtra etc, who were not present in the battle field !!!) :-)

    bye & cheers,
    ravi ( hyb)( sent from my friend's gmail ID as I don't have one in Gmail !!)

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  2. Dear Dr. Saab,

    Pls. inform this to one IRFCA veteran revered by all, Mr. IAN MANNING. Please convey my regards to him. I fondly remember the train fanning trip I had made in Gwalior - Bhopal express via Guna and I consider it as a privilege to be accompanied by Mr. Manning.

    Pls. ask him to reply & possibly send me his trip jottings / report on that memorable train fanning trip.

    bye & cheers,
    ravi

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  3. Ravi - That is already on the forum :)

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  4. Congratulations to IRFCA on yet another convention that brings together folks on a common track! Good work by the organizers and good luck to BSL 2011.
    Thanks to Vrij for the blog. And as always ... wish I was there ... :-)
    - Gautam

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  5. My warm wishes to all comrades at BSL2011. Three cheers to the success of this years convention !!

    Missing all the fun.

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  6. Wish I could be there at the convention...away from all this snow! Sridhar, a quick reminder - during the video quiz, please let everyone know that the cover pic (of WAM4 at Bhusaval) was taken by Vivek Manvi. He needs to be acknowledged! Thanks!

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  7. Eagerly waiting for the live updates to start!

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  8. ... do we have a red carpet commentary as the participants come in !!

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  9. All the best and enjoy...waiting for the commentary to begin

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  10. Hello to all Railnuts,
    My best wishes to the organizers of BSL 2011. I hope all the presentations will be made available online.

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  11. Doctor Saab !!

    Extremely happy to note that BSL - 2011 has begun with a bang !! Salute to all trains fans !! Anthariki Vanthanamu !!

    bye & cheers,
    ravi

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