Amazing set of historical pics. Many thanks for sharing.

Really nice collection! Hats off to those who captured and preserved these pictures. It was my pleasure looking at them. A special vote of thanks to those who brought this album here.

You can see the famous clock tower in the background. Comparing this with the present. :-O

The practice of not going into the station engine first probably had something to do with keeping the covered area of the terminus station smoke free.

I think its safe to say that 'classy service' on IR disappeared very long ago. Mr.Muirhead (God bless him!) would turn in his grave if he saw what IRCTC were up to today!

@Karan - That is not a station. That was how the Spencer's HQ looked, situated on the legendary Mount Road, Madras. A wonderful structure now in the ugly innards of land sharks!

I suppose that the freight wagons are in the front part of the mixed train - next to the steam loco - and it would be a normal shunting process to bifurcate the train into two parts, the loco taking the first part consisting of the goods wagons to CBE and then returning to the balance part of the train to haul it in too. If the passenger coaches were in the front, the priorities get reversed for the shunting process.

Two questions -
1) Which station is this shown in the photo?
2) Do we have any Specner's restaurant alive today on the IR network? If no, when did the last one close?

Very interesting...many thanks

I wonder if the loco is actually 766 as it appears in later photos? I could not find a MSMR 4-6-0 numbered 667 in Hughes part 1..