Bombay Railway & History Group

A feast of old findings and artefacts for global railway heritage buffs of railway archaeology in Bombay - Mumbai India. Rajendra B. Aklekar, Mumbai (rajendraa (@) gmail.com)

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07 September 2009

Remains of the first electric railway...

G.I.P.R seals on OHE masts find a home Bombay’s first railway was not only India’s first, but also the Asia’s first. The first railway el...

30 July 2009

Western Railway: Heritage, Traditions and Legend

A. K. Jhingron; Western Railway, Mumbai, 2009; 239 pages, Rs 500 (With a chapter on relics in Mumbai by Rajendra B. Aklekar) ---------...

17 July 2009

Mumbai's local trains for museum soon

Rajendra B. Aklekar THOSE dust-brown and yellow local trains that rattle up and down the city are set to retire. About eighty years after...

25 June 2009

Buried treasure: Row of arches at Bhandup station in Mumbai

A stunning find to announce. The Central Railway is building two new tracks between Kurla and Thane stations to decongest the suburban...

28 March 2009

Oldest tracks found near Thane

In a rare find, the Central Railway has unearthed some of the oldest rail tracks of “bull head” type that had been buried under debris sinc...

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