BBCIR / Western Railway Suburban System

Pictures of BBCIR and Western Railway suburban system of Bombay (Mumbai) from the yesteryears.

Contributed by R Harish Kumar and Harsh Vardhan. Some scans are through the courtesy of Deepak Dongre.

Date: 2009-12-06
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 39 items
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EMU cars being stacked up. Note all the `Curious Georges' seated on the wheel sets, to get the best view! (R Harish Kumar)

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EMU cars stacked up on a barge for transportation. (R Harish Kumar)

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Carriage assembly in progress (R Harish Kumar)

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Churchgate Station in all its trasfromation (R Harish Kumar)

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Churchgate Station in all its trasfromation (R Harish Kumar)

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Churchgate Station in all its trasfromation (R Harish Kumar)

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Churchgate Station. (R Harish Kumar)

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Churchgate Station vicinity. Note the cabin, with the bell and a broken ceiling and also the double headed suburban train with locomotives running tender first. (R Harish Kumar)

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Mahalakshmi Station (R Harish Kumar)

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Bandra Station. The Central Railway harbour line from Bombay Victoria Terminus originally terminated here. (R Harish Kumar)

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Marine line station (R Harish Kumar)

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Dadar Station (R Harish Kumar)

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Electrification in progress (R Harish Kumar)

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A 25KV electrical sub-station of Western Railway at the edge of the DC network.

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Route controllers at work.

Comments
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An excellent collection. Thank you very much for this visual treat!
Posted by Sagar J. Tipnis on 2009 Dec 28 16:07:21 +0000
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No doubt it is great Album but has been uploaded without any authority from Western Railway . This is the property of Western Railway . Western Railway have original CD which has about 847 files (681 Mb). Nobody else has scanned these files .These are ...
Posted by Rajendra Saxena on 2009 Dec 18 09:11:02 +0000
Great album. Many thanks for uploading it.
Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2009 Dec 14 07:21:55 +0000