It's amazing that you and your family have preserved this and other travel accessories till date. These are museum pieces worth preserving.

Thanks for capturing it.

Thanks a lot. Brings back old memories!! Of the golden era of travel!! Some older holdalls had provision for keeping water bottles on the outside.

Military personnel still use this trunks. Myself and my family members went to Delhi. I was just a small kid then. We had taken berths only for my father, mother and elder sister who was 14. We made a bed with these kinds of boxes and holdall between the lower berths, me and my brother slept on them!!.

Brings back so many memories! Am I correct in assuming that the hold-all was used only for train travel?

Yes, Hold-alls, plastic water bottles, huge leather suitcases, reservation-charts on type-written sheets of papers - all memories of a bygone era that I will cherish for sure.

Thanks a lot Shirish! This along with Poori Aloo bhaji is perhaps an inseparable part of childhood memories associated with Railways.

One can see such trunks with the Army folks on transfer taking the house hold items in many such trunks. Generally, painted black.

Hey - This looks exactly like the holdall and suitcase that I used in my college days from 1967 to 1972 !! Except that I did not have my name stenciled on the holdall !!

Amazing that you still have the holdall. I think we threw out ours long ago.