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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30 January 2010

Old rail lines can save city’s water supply pipes

OLD timers and city historians are blaming Mumbai’s municipal corporation for the frequent breaking of pipelines saying that the corpora...

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...

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