Mrinal,

your site is excellent! It is fascinating to see all the material you have assembled on this under-known subject! I am particularly interested in Howrah Station and associated buildings. My book, 'Calcutta's Edifice: The Buildings of a Great City' is currently in production at HarperCollins India. My previous book was 'The Grand Trunk Road From The Front Seat'. I have devoted much space to Howrah Station in my book. Halsey Ricardo's fine station is my all-time favourite. I have never seen pictures of the old Howrah station, though. As of yet, I have not seen the rare pictures of Howrah, Sealdah etc. stations which you mention. Where are they located? Also, do you have any information / pictures of South Station in Calcutta (next to Sealdah), otherwise known as Mutla or Matla Stn, with branch line to Port Canning? Any pictures of the Port Canning terminus? Please keep up the good work!
Sincerely, Brian

Hello!
Quite impressed.
I am Sandipan from The Times of India, Kolkata and would like to do a story on you and your nice project which we get to see on the Net.

please send your contact number and your convenient place to meet over my e-mail at the earnest.

looking forward to your feedback.
Thanks.

Comments:
It was a great sight to look into. Became very nostalgic as my father was working in Liluah Workshop for last 39 years. Should put in some more pictures of Liluah Workshop from the recent years. Should also talk about Apprentices Association of Eastern Railways.

Hello Mrinalda,
A terrific site: I surfed at leisure, and enjoyed every moment of it. I think I ought to take a course of javascript from you. The effects are terrific.
Keep up the good work. Only bit of criticism: you should provide a link back to your home page from your pages dealing with the divisions and workshops.
Good show, and all the best.
 

I am pleasently surprised to see the tremendous effort put in by you. The site has come out very well.

Can you guide me whom to contact for getting permission from the railway authorities for taking my young son on avisit to some railway workshops around Kolkata? i would like him to get a chance to admire the beauty of IR.

Regards and best wishes,
K.Harlalka
 

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MV

Dear Mr. Mrinal Das,

Today i visited yr website http://railindia.tripod.com/.
At the out set, i wish to extend my congratulation for your great work.

I am working with Korean firm who is in the business of manufacturing EMU's & other rly wagons . I am handling the logistics of Rail cars from Korea to New Delhi for Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

I will be greatful if you can send some more information and photograph on the handling of LHB coaches at Calcutta port.

You can contact me at 9811667341 (Delhi). Pls provide your contact details. If you are based in Clacutta, i will try to see you in my next visit to calcutta.

Please note, it is not a official request and i need this favour from you on personal ground. Evenif u could not arrange any information required by me, pls provide yr contact detail as i am very much impressed with such a good database and collection of photograph.

Best Regards,

Nilesh Sinha
 

Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:46:41 -0300
From: "Heitor Aquino Ferreira" <hferr@attglobal.net>
Subject: A question from Brazil

Dear Sir
Could you please tell me something about  this "circular wheel of wet straw" that I found reading the biography Churchill by Roy Jenkins, quoting My Early Lifeby Sir Winston himself? 
On page 31:

He went to the Bangalore railway station and asked for a ticket to Nowshera, which was the railhead for the Malakand expedition, but which sounded like a more than passable imitation of ‘nowhere’.

Then, in his own words:

"I had the curiosity to ask how far it was. The polite Indian
[booking clerk] consulted a railway time table and impassively  answered, 2,028 miles ....
This meant a five days’ journey in the worst of the heat.
I was alone; but with plenty of books, the time passed not unpleasantly.
Those large leather-lined Indian railway carriages, deeply shuttered  and blinded from the blistering sun and kept fairly cool by a circular wheel of wet straw which one turned from time to time, were well adapted to the local conditions. I spent five days in a dark padded moving cell, reading mostly by lamplight or by some jealously admitted ray of glare."

Thank you.
H.Ferreira
from Teresopolis, Brazil

From: "B N Gupta" <bn_gupta@vsnl.net>
Subject: Your Railway Website.
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:48:05 +0530


I was casually searching for my place 'LILUAH' in google
and got your site.  This is really a good informative site.

Keep it up.
B N GUPTA
 

Saturday 12/07/2002 1:11:48am
Name:   Mathew   mathewtosapas@yahoo.com
Just Surfed In

Saudi Arabia

Comments:
It was very much fun to back to the past and remember the days when we used to travel by train, especially the steam engine ones, with all the smoke blowing and the stations with chaiwallahs and their mud cups. The site has been painstakingly prepared and gives a good insight to the Indian railways. This site is a tribute to the Indian Railways which is the bloodline of our country. Big salute to the creator of this site.
Jai Hind.