Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway (BBCIR)

Pictures of the Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway.

Pictures of BBCIR are from Bombay (Mumbai) and surrounding area. Photos were shared by a relative who is a Western Railway employee. Scanning provided by Deepak Dongre. (R Harish Kumar)

Date: 2009-12-13
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 34 items
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Steam locomotive belonging to BB & CI Railways hauls a passenger train into Bombay Central. Note the relatively new and elegant cabin building. (R Harish Kumar)

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An Indian Flying Scotsman! P class locomotives No. 601 & 602 were precursor to the XC class locomotives. These two were built by Kitson in 1924 (R Harish Kumar)

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Frontier Mail hauled by an H class 4-6-0 locomotive No. 511, pulls out of Ballard Pier Railway Station. (R Harish Kumar)

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Locomotive No. 702 was one of the only three locomotives built belonging to the M class. It was built in 1924 by Kitson (R Harish Kumar).

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No. 345 was member of H class 4-6-0 locomotives. This engine was built by North British in Glasgow in 1909. R Harish Kumar

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Frontier mail ready to depart from Ballard Pier with a pair of H class locomotive. The leading engine is No. 358 which was built by North British in 1915 (R Harish Kumar)

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H class 4-6-0 locomotive No. 542 hauling what appears to be a mail train (R Harish Kumar)

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An earlier locomotive of BBCIR, No. 8 became known as `Palej'. It was an A class 2-4-0T locomotive built by Robert Stephenson & Co in 1881 (R Harish Kumar)

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D1 class 4-4-0 locomotive No. 248. It was known as `Princess May' (R Harish Kumar)

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A resplendent H class 4-6-0 locomotive No. 348 is probably being prepared for a royal trip. (R Harish Kumar)

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A meter gauge BBCIR locomotive. No. 98 was a B class 0-4-4 tank locomotive built by Dubs in 1874. Earlier examples were built by Naysmth Wilson. The location of this picture could be Ajmer works. (R Harish Kumar)

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Seen here is what appears to be a long distance suburban train (R Harish Kumar)

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H class 4-6-0 locomotives were designed to haul fast and heavy passengers trains of the era. No. 554 here is showing what it is capable of (R Harish Kumar)

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Frontier Mail hauled by Steam Engine near Bassai (Vasai) - 1930 (R Harish Kumar)

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First train to run across the newly constructed Vasai Bridge. (R Harish Kumar)

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"No doubt it is great Album & As a rail fan ,I will like to have this album on IRFCA server but This album has been uploaded without any authority from Western Railway .

This material is the property of Western Railway . Western Railway ...
Posted by Rajendra Saxena on 2009 Dec 18 11:37:38 +0000
Many many thanks for the pics!!
Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2009 Dec 14 10:36:03 +0000
Good to see the by-gone steam era and I am sure all miss it!
Thanks for uploading the snaps at IRFCA.
Posted by Kunal Doddanavar on 2009 Dec 14 03:34:18 +0000