Heritage and History

Date: 2003-02-25
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 368 items (2280 items total)
CWD locomotive, date/location uncertain
Diagram for double-decker carriage, BB&CI Railway
Bandra station around 1900
CS Catalogue Electric loco ed

Scan of Cowans Sheldon catalog listing electric locomotive No. 319 supplied to the East Indian Railway (see adjacent photograph). Scan provided by Chris Capewell. (Chris Capewell)

CS Catalogue Electric loco

East Indian Railway electric locomotive with 3-phase overhead current collection, built by Cowans Sheldon Engineers, Carlisle. Works number 319. The accompanying notes from the Cowans Sheldon catalog says that this locomotive was intended for yard use, co

YAM 1 - TBM - 21909 (1)

The Preserved YAM-1 locomotive from Tambaram Shed. The locomotive is preserved in Rail Museum, Chennai. (Krishna 20065)

US War Dept. 2-8-2 MG locomotive at Parbatipur, BAR
engine 31

"From the collection of my ancestor (possibly the one sitting on rail along with the boy), who was a pharmacist and travelled extensively around the world" -- Ivor Rackham. Date and location unknown. Photograph scanned and restored by Ivor Rackh

Scan003

An undated image of Andheri bound suburban EMU train of Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway (BBCIR)

WDS-8

The now extinct WDS-8 locomotive. Scan from one of the editions of the Bengali children's magazine 'Anandamela' c.1989. From Souroshankha's personal collection. (Souroshankha Maji)

2013-07-04 16.11.59

Remains of an Abandoned culvert of the ancient Chinchwad Mulshi Railway line. Mulkhed (near Ghotawade) tal Mulshi dist Pune.This line was abandoned in the late 1930's. (Rahul Rao)

monorail-shannon-river-fete-1-resized

A view of the monorail constructed by Messrs. Marsland and Price for the Shannon River fete in 1902. This fete, lasting five days, was organized by Lady Northcote, the wife of the then Governor of Bombay, to raise money for the Countess of Dufferin's Fund

monorail-shannon-river-fete-2-resized

Another view of the monorail constructed for the Shannon River fete at Bombay, 1902. Scan provided by Brian Goggin. (Brian Goggin)

Betul4

Railway engineers at Betul, India in the 1920s.Image courtesy Nigel Purdey whose grandfather Tom Womersley, was a civil engineer and worked on the railways in Betul in the 1920s and took these pictures.

Betul3

Inspection carriage at Darakoh station.Image courtesy Nigel Purdey whose grandfather Tom Womersley, was a civil engineer and worked on the railways in Betul in the 1920s and took these pictures.