Apurva is right - this train is headed towards Pune. I assumed from the barrenness (see next picture) that the train is headed away from Pune City!

Many thanks, Harsh, for this super album.
Images of a time long gone. It is good that someone took to trouble to take pictures of such scenes.

Fantastic!! This is not just an Album, It is a collection of Memories!! Thanks for Sharing!

These pictures are truly historical - they are connected with IR and also show the industrialisation of Poona (now Pune)- which would not have happened without IR. The men and women in the pictures are pioneers of industialisation of Poona. Thanks a lot - Harsh - for sharing this heritage.

At the point of time when this factory was constructed, folks would have considered this area to be out of Poona City. Today, Hadapsar is a part and parcel of Pune !!

Some wagons in the past, till late 1980s had spoked wheels.

Nice to see IR officers dressed smartly in suit and tie. These days even the higher officers come to the office wearing jeans, jackets and sneakers.

Wow! I am speechless looking at these photographs. 1960s to 2012, more than 50 years have passed. I can relate to these pictures, because they depict railways I grew up watching, the WG steam locomotive, the 'C' wagon, the four wheeled box car, semaphore signals etc. The only thing that has remained unchanged, is sadly the images of laborers, same hard working, toiling people earning bare minimum wages. Hardly anything has changed for these citizens of our country, a sad reminder to our so-called "progress".

Thanks a lot. My dad took training in this company during 1960's. He was a metallurgical engineer from BHU, Varanasi. He had training in many prestigious companies in India as well as abroad. He was sent for training in this Company by the company where he worked, Aluminum Industries Ltd (ALIND), Hyderabad and Hirakud. Probably he knew the persons in the picture

This is the view north out of the BFL plot, hence this train is facing west, i.e. towards Pune.