"No doubt it is great Album & As a rail fan ,I will like to have this album on IRFCA server but This album has been uploaded without any authority from Western Railway .

This material is the property of Western Railway . Western Railway have original CD which has about 847 files (681 Mb). Nobody else has scanned these files .These are simply taken from our CD.The person who handed over this CD or photo in Pendrive is not the authorised representaive of WR & the statement regarding their scanning by somebody appears to be false

western railway has not accorded any permission to any body to publish these photo . If somebody has such permission , same may be uploaded for clearing the matter .

Chief Engineer Western Railway

The reason that the line could be hugging the coast line in those days was that the Backbay Reclamation work had not commenced. The line from Churchgate to Colaba was closed to enable the grand reclamation project to be carried out. The rest is history.

Lovely album of heritage pics. Deserves a rightful place on our server under FIRST CLASS.

Can we try to add some more photos of the old Colaba station too ?? This will complete the history of this line.

Doc, to me it looks more like PF-1 of mainline terminus because the FOB seen in the background exists even now between BCT and Mahalakshmi stations, so this photo was taken facing north. If that is the case, PF-1 of BCT local would be at the far left in this photo.

Sir, myself and Kaushik Dharwadkar, with due permission from port authority, had gone once last year to trace remains of this station, if any. Sadly, a container terminal has come up where the platform is seen here and the far end seen here now houses the Passenger Cruise Terminal (which is just a HUGE waiting area with some immigration counters, all rarely or never used).

Even cochin had similar arrangement. The name of station was COchin Pier (CHP). Remains of the station can be seen here:
http://www.irfca.org/gallery/Stations/CHTS/Sany0143.jpg.html

The area has been converted to a gantry. See it's position now, with a ship:
http://www.irfca.org/gallery/Stations/CHTS/IMG_0097.jpg.html

Could be PF 1 of the local side, what used to be called Bellasis Road station.

This was the Dabhoi - Miyagam Karjan NG line, opened in 1862 and still in operation today.

This must be a Post - Independence picture, as WPs were introduced only after World War II.

Yes Milind, VT - Kurla Harbor line was first electrified in 1925, followed by Wadala - Bandra and then VT - Kalyan via Main line. BBCI was electrified in 1928.