Heritage and History
LOCOMOTIVES FOR INDIA: Canadian Locomotive Company, Kingston, Ontario, Canada - The first of 145 Canadian-built war department locomotives that will be sent to India to haul allied supplies across 1600 miles of India Railways to our fighting lines in Burm
WP 7288 was an East Indian Railway locomotive seen here at Saharanpur on an unknown date. It was from a batch of 200 WP class locomotive built amongst Baldwin Locomotive Works, Canadian Locomotive Company and Montreal Locomotive Works in 1949. 7288 was bu
Eastern Punjab Railway locomotive No. 1865 seen at Saharanpur shed on an unknown date. It is an IRS 4-6-2 locomotive of XC class designed for fast passenger duties. This example was built by William Beardmore & Co. at Glasgow in 1931. Courtesy Hal Hug
Saharanpur shed staff pose along the cab side of XC 1865. This locomotive began its working life under North Western Railway from which Eastern Punjab Railway was created. With 28 XC class locomotives in its rooster at its peak, North Western Railway was
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A meter gauge loco pulling few wagons in an oilfield in Assam. The loco was built by Hudswell, Clarke & Co, Leeds in 1923 AD. This is one of the three locos delivered. Exact date uncertain but taken in the 1920s. (Rahul Biswas)
A rare image of BBM1 20251 (which later became the WAM1 class), on standard gauge axles in trial service on SNCF at Strasbourg on 1960-09-05 (Unknown Photographer)
Safety Poster:It points out the danger of stopping a train outside the Fouling Mark. (Khalid Kagzi)
Enlargement of a section of previous picture.
From the family album of my friend Chris Ward - probably taken by his late father about 1944. (David Churchill)
Picture taken about 1944 at Madras (?). Note what appears to be a tram waiting at the crossing. The next photo is an enlargement of the train and tram.
Any more details or comments very welcome.
From the family album of my friend Chris Ward ...
Bombay Calcutta Mail of Bengal Nagpur Railway. Date uncertain, but surely before 1917 AD. The locomotive is a GM class 4-6-0 #387 of the BNR, built by North British in 1907 and it was named "Cornwallis". They had 73.5" coupled wheels and 2
How to insure against railway accidents - A cartoon that appeared in the British Weekly `Punch' in 1853 and was reproduced in Time - Life Science Library's book `Wheels' published in 1967. Well recommended for transportation and railway fans.
Pune station from an old postcard.
Some years ago I loaded a rather similar view which is at:
http://www.irfca.org/gallery/Heritage/pune10.jpg.html
Card bought on E-Bay. Date and photographer unknown. (dachur)
Delhi station, possibly during 1900s - Any suggestion as to date or other comments welcome.
Old picture from E-bay. Date and photographer unknown (dachur)
Another view of GIPR 0-8-0ST. Can anyone suggest where it is?
Old picture bought from a local sale. Photographer and date unknown. (dachur)
GIPR 0-8-0ST built as a ghat banker and later used for shunting. Any further information welcomed.
Old picture bought from a local sale. Photographer and date unknown. (dachur)
Few Heritage photo received from southern railway (Rajendra Saxena)
A train before electrification of main line.The ramp in picture is the Sandhurst road station ramp.Picture credit TOI & IRIEEN. ()
Crowd wait at Kurla station to witness the electrification of the then GIP railway.Date 4.2.1925.Also an interesting piece of news article on DQ's timing then.Picture credit TOI & IRIEEN. ()
A very precious pamphlet I found today. Gives a brief history of railways around Lucknow. This was printed by the Sr.DOM of LKO division in 1990s, who became the DRM also here in around 2000. Lots of things may have changed now. Thanks to Mr. BMS Bisht fo
Another view of the same. Note though LKO-RBL-PBH-BSB line came later than LKO-FD-BSB, it is still shown as main line. The LKO-SLN-BSB which was the last one is known as chord line which means the shortest. (Samar)