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The scale model of a beautiful 4-6-0 steam locomotive is among many that are displayed at the National Rail Museum, New Delhi. Unfortunately, the notes about this locomotive have been lost :(

 

 
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Though there appears nothing Indian about these models, various British Rail stock from Hornby get featured on the layout maintained in the National Rail Museum, New Delhi. This pic is dated late August, 1998 and the museum official building the layout expressed helplessness on the lack of Indian model trains. The Eurostar and BR classes 85 and 91 return to colonize Indian train museums.

 

 
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The scale model of a Pacific 4-6-2 WP locomotive adorns the shelves of National Rail Museum, New Delhi. These bullet-nosed beauties ruled Indian Railways for a very long time. There would be "black beauty" contests where sheds would deck and deploy their most beautiful locomotives to compete with one another.

 

 
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This is a model of the Underground Metro that operates in the city of Kolkata. It has been displayed in the museum building of NRM, New Delhi. With strict security maintained at all points, its quite impossible to photograph this train without getting into trouble.


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