An undated picture postcard showing Gangapur City station with a train crossing. Postcard was in the personal collection of Station Master of this station between February 1922 till December 1922. Facing locomotive is an H class No. 505 buily by Vulcan Foundary in 1907. This was the express passenger locomotive of the time.

Date: 2010-08-11
Owner: Gallery Administrator
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in all this discussion people failed to notice lovely lamp over the Gangapur City board!
Posted by Aseem Johri on 2010 Aug 13 13:04:29 +0100
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Ramdev, each situation has its own pros and cons. It is better to take the best of both sides and try to work out a solution to all problems. An ideal situation would be to be an independent nation with standards of cleanliness, hygiene, efficiency...
Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2010 Aug 13 05:29:23 +0100
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Look at the three British gentlemen by the loco. They look so trim and disciplined. The British rule also I guess was very disciplined unlike the hopeless governments we see today in India.
As I always say, India would have been better off under...
Posted by Ramdev Gowda on 2010 Aug 12 22:03:58 +0100
Not to mention the cleanliness all around. Cleanliness is something the IR fails to accomplish quite consistently.
Posted by Dinesh Hukmani on 2010 Aug 12 19:02:36 +0100
Yes, Jimmy sir, compare these carriages to the ones today. We have Sardine tin cans today. In a way I feel that things were better under the British.
Posted by Ramdev Gowda on 2010 Aug 11 19:52:18 +0100
Woww.. True Treasure indeed !!! And look at the tracks and platform. There is no single spec of garbage there. ...
Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2010 Aug 11 09:06:51 +0100
What an awesome feeling these pictures evoke! Unexplainable!!
Posted by Harish Kumar on 2010 Aug 11 06:11:43 +0100
True gems! Look at the carriages on the right
Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2010 Aug 11 05:50:57 +0100
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