Technology and tranquility, together.

Some of the WPs did have names, even though I do not think there was any official policy to give locomotives real names. One that comes to my mind is "Sanjay" and a Saharanpur based WP "Rehmat".

We owe a lot to the non-Indian rail fans of IR, who decades before came to India and selectively and beautifully documented the Indian Railways, when the average indigenous rail fan was an extremely rare individual. Thank you Mr. Tickner for your tremendous contribution.

Beautiful.

A great collection of photographs the steam era sir !!! These reminded me of the last days if steam which I noticed as a child near Roorkee at Saharanpur and further down the line at Lucknow. Cheers !!!

Each photo is a masterpiece and makes one nostalgic of the bygone era of IR. Take a bow sir !

John, I salute you on this amazingly priceless collection of simple yet hauntingly beautiful photos of things which we cannot recreate now! Thanks for sharing.
Webmasters - hope we can preserve this collection!

The album really is a masterclass
That channel like wireframe structure formed by telephone cables is so mesmerizing.

Thanks a ton to John Tickner for sharing these gems.

Classic.. Classic.. Classic pic.