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Romancingthe Rail6th & 7th of March, 2021 1200 HRS IST - 0630 HRS GMTfacebook.com/railenthusiastssocietyA Global Conferenceof, by and forRail Enthusiasts.

Romancingthe RailA Global Conferenceof, by and forRail Enthusiasts6th & 7th of March, 2021 1200 HRS IST - 0630 HRS GMTS P E A K E R S F RO M A L L A RO U N D T H E G LO B EALE X ANDE R KAR NES APARNA GARG ARUP CHATTERJE E ASHWANI LOHANIIAN THOM SON NEWMAN MICHAEL WHITEHOUSE PAUL THEROUXPAUL WHITTLE R AG INI YECHURY SAMIT ROYCHOUDHURY DR. STEPHEN P.J. COSSEYT R R AG HUNANDAN TARUN THAKRAL TREVOR HE ATH WAR REN MILLERF R E E T O AT T E N DKNOW MOREREGISTERAJAI BANERJI - CREATOR OF THE QUIZ FOR D BY THE RAIL ENTHUSIASTS' SOCIETY INDIA

Romancingthe RailA Global Conferenceof, by and forRail Enthusiasts6th & 7th of March, 2021 1200 HRS IST - 0630 HRS GMTCONFERENCESCHEDULESPEAKERTOPICISTGMTDAY 1 OPENSIntroduction to RES and the Conference1200 HRS0630 HRSWARREN MILLERDining on Railways1215 HRS0645 HRSAPARNA GARGRe-imagination of a Rail Museum1300 HRS0730 HRSSAMIT ROYCHOUDHURYMapping India's Railways1400 HRS0830 HRSPAUL WHITTLEUK's Railway Heritage1500 HRS0930 HRSIAN THOMSON NEWMANThe Last Nitrate Railway1600 HRS10:30 HRST R RAGHUNANDANA Recycler’s Approach to Railway Modelling1700 HRS1130 HRSDR. STEPHEN P.J. COSSEYComplete Restoration of a 1921 Baldwin 2-6-0 in 14 months1800 HRS1230 HRSRAGINI YECHURYWomen in Indian Railways1900 HRS1330 HRSDAY 2 OPENSIntroduction to RES and the Conference1200 HRS0630 HRSPAUL THEROUXRomance of Railway Literature1215 HRS0645 HRSARUP CHATTERJEEA Cultural Biography of Indian Railways1300 HRS0730 HRSTARUN THAKRALCreating India’s First Comprehensive Transport Museum1400 HRS0830 HRSMICHAEL WHITEHOUSEPioneering Heritage Special Express Steam Trains in the UK1500 HRS0930 HRSASHWANI LOHANIBeginning of the Revival of Steam in India1600 HRS1030 HRSBOOK LAUNCHBlack Beauties - Vikas Singh1700 HRS1130 HRSALEXANDER KARNESKeeping Steam Preservation Close to its Roots1730 HRS1200 HRSTREVOR HEATH1. Current Steam in Africa2. Surviving Garratts of the World in Operating Condition1830 HRS1300 HRSAJAI BANERJI - CREATOR OF THE QUIZ FOR D BY THE RAIL ENTHUSIASTS' SOCIETY INDIA

Romancingthe RailA Global Conferenceof, by and forRail Enthusiasts6th & 7th of March, 2021 1200 HRS IST - 0630 HRS GMTALEXANDER KARNES NEW YORK UNITED STATESSUNDAY, 7T H MARCH 1730 HRS IST 1200 HR S G M TAlexander Karnes has been passionate about and has worked with steam all his life. As with most men of steam, thispassion started with the railway and expanded to cover all steam. He became intensely interested in steam on railwaysaround the world from a young age due to exposure to it in books and on television. He decided to involve himself withit as early as he was able. He gained precious mechanical experience both at home and abroad working on what heloves, learning from railway men, sta onary engine engineers, marine engineers, and others who have been doing thisfor a life me.When it comes to steam, if any one person can combine the percep ons and overview of a manager, the technicalknow-how of an engineer and the skills of a mechanic, it is Alexander Karnes. He is no arm-chair steam buff: he is totallyhands-on. He was the keynote speaker at the Annual Congress of the Indian Steam Railway Society in November 2015.In spite of being only 22 year old then, his knowledge, passion and love of steam and steam locos was more apparentthan that of many veterans who were present in the audience."Keeping Steam Preservation Close to its Roots"Alexander’s talk will try to cover the overall "health" of the steam movement around the world to preserve and run steamengines, and how enthusiasts can ac vely involve themselves with the process of maintaining and working with steamlocomo ves. By doing so ac vely, the enthusiast can ensure that the movement does not become stale or die out. Thetalk will cite examples of not only the problems and challenges faced by the steam buffs but also demonstrate thetriumphs in the face of these problems.S P E A K E R S F RO M A RO U N D T H E G LO B EALE X ANDE R KAR NES APARNA GARG ARUP CHATTERJE E ASHWANI LOHANIIAN THOM SON NEWMAN MICHAEL WHITEHOUSE PAUL THEROUXPAUL WHITTLE R AG INI YECHURY SAMIT ROYCHOUDHURY DR. STEPHEN P.J. COSSEYT R R AG HUNANDAN TARUN THAKRAL TREVOR HE ATH WAR REN MILLERF R E E T O AT T E N DKNOW ANISED BY THE RAIL ENTHUSIASTS' SOCIETY INDIA

Romancingthe RailA Global Conferenceof, by and forRail Enthusiasts6th & 7th of March, 2021 1200 HRS IST - 0630 HRS GMTAPARNA GARG BENGALURU INDIASATURDAY, 6TH MARCH 1300 HRS IST 0730 H R S G M TAparna Garg is a working railway woman and currently the Financial Advisor and Chief Accounts Officer of the RailWheel Factory at Indian Railways. A member of the Indian Railways Accounts Service, she has held various managerialposi ons on the Indian Railways, including that of Divisional Railway Manager of Mysuru Division.Re-imagination of a Rail MuseumMysuru is the second city in the country to house a Rail Museum as far back in 1979. Aparna’s pos ng there asDivisional Railway Manager gave her an opportunity to reshape this piece of history. In 2018, the museum did not lookvery en cing; number of visitors per day had come down to single digits. She envisioned to create an iconic structureand ambience to match global standards. A two-year tenure is a very short me to conceptualize and realize such adream. This was not a main stream project of Railways, therefore crea ng a purpose and sustaining interest and findingways and means to successfully complete it was nothing short of a miracle. She donned the hat of a visualizer, anarchitect, engineer, environmentalist, designer, manager, and a leader, all at the same me to effec vely deliver it.The result was not only restora on and preserva on of the rich heritage of the railway system in the region, but a radicaltransforma on. Her talk will focus on this interes ng and rewarding experience from concept to comple on, hurdles andchallenges en route and the way forward to deliver such projects. Aparna will also share the journey of iden fying thelost and forgo en precincts of Arasallu sta on in Malnad region and conver ng the same to Museum Malgudi. (Railwayscenes of the famed tele-serial ‘Malgudi days’ were shot at this loca on). These ini a ves became a trend se er forrevival of heritage sta on buildings.S P E A K E R S F RO M A RO U N D T H E G LO B EALE X ANDE R KAR NES APARNA GARG ARUP CHATTERJE E ASHWANI LOHANIIAN THOM SON NEWMAN MICHAEL WHITEHOUSE PAUL THEROUXPAUL WHITTLE R AG INI YECHURY SAMIT ROYCHOUDHURY DR. STEPHEN P.J. COSSEYT R R AG HUNANDAN TARUN THAKRAL TREVOR HE ATH WAR REN MILLERF R E E T O AT T E N DKNOW ANISED BY THE RAIL ENTHUSIASTS' SOCIETY INDIA

Romancingthe RailA Global Conferenceof, by and forRail Enthusiasts6th & 7th of March, 2021 1200 HRS IST - 0630 HRS GMTARUP K CHATTERJEE NEW DELHI INDIASUNDAY, 7TH MARCH 1300 HRS IST 0730 HR S G M TArup is Associate Professor of English at the Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, at Sonipat, India. In2014, he was a recipient of the Charles Wallace fellowship to United Kingdom. In 2017-18, he was a visi ng fellow atthe Brunel University, London. He is the Founder Chief Editor of Coldnoon: Interna onal Journal of Travel Wri ng andTravelling Cultures, which he ran from 2011-19, and author of the widely reviewed and acclaimed, The Purveyors ofDes ny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways (2017), besides The Great Indian Railways (Bloomsbury, 2018) andIndians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India (2020). He has contributed numerousar cles on history, literature, culture and poli cs to magazines such as The Hindu, Open, Hindustan Times, TheConversa on, Scroll, The Wire, DailyO, Huffington Post, The Caravan and India Today. He works in areas of Victorianand Indian imperial history, Jungian analy cal psychology, dream studies and Vedanta.Cultural Biography of the Great Indian RailwaysFollowing an experimental railway track at Chintadripet in 1835, the ba le for India's first railroad was fought bi erlybetween John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsula Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East Indian Railway,which was merged with Dwarkanath Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mu ny of1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for na ve merchants if Badshahi rule was restored inDelhi. From Jules Verne to Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain to Rabindranath Tagore, Nirad C. Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan andRuskin Bond - the aura of Indian trains and railway sta ons has enchanted many writers and poets. With iconiccinematography from The Apu Trilogy, Aradhana, Sonar Kella, Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs ofWasseypur, and numerous others, Indian cinema has paved the way for mythical railroads in the na onal psyche. Arup’stalk takes us on a historic adventure through many junc ons of India's hidden railway legends, with anecdotes fromimperial poli cs, European and Indian accounts, the ba lefronts of the Indian na onalist movement, Indian cinema,songs, adver sements, and much more, in an ever-expanding cultural biography of the Great Indian Railways.S P E A K E R S F RO M A RO U N D T H E G LO B EALE X ANDE R KAR NES APARNA GARG ARUP CHATTERJE E ASHWANI LOHANIIAN THOM SON NEWMAN MICHAEL WHITEHOUSE PAUL THEROUXPAUL WHITTLE R AG INI YECHURY SAMIT ROYCHOUDHURY DR. STEPHEN P.J. COSSEYT R R AG HUNANDAN TARUN THAKRAL TREVOR HE ATH WAR REN MILLERF R E E T O AT T E N DKNOW ANISED BY THE RAIL ENTHUSIASTS' SOCIETY INDIA