In a major boost to India's railway heritage restoration movement, the Indian Railway Board issued a directive last year to all zonal railways to have at least...
Friends, The railways are acting. While the Railway Board Chairman is still examining the proposal to preserve the GIP reversing station, the National Railway ...
Hi, I have been planning to get things organised on this front. This would include some more promotion, new projects and possibly a print newsletter too. The...
Friends, As you all know Bombay has been the pioneer of Indian Railways and it is indeed a matter of regret that the city does not have a railway museum....
Friends, The Direct Current traction would soon vanish from India. An example in the case is Bombay. The DC traction network in Bombay would be replaced in...
Friends, A bit of bad news. A recent visit to the reversing station site reveals that the reversing station has been completely demolished now. It does not...
Hi, Old GIP bull-headed rails have been unearthed at Kanjur Marg station on CR's Mumbai division during work on the fifth and sixth lines last week. Plan to...
Mumbai Port Trust is all set to open up its land to public. This would open up land locked on the city's western seafront. This includes the remains of Ballard...
Dear Subin, The station lies near the Bombay Port Trust office at Ballard Pier. You know the tall RBI building. It is somewhere behind the building. It is a...
Dear Sir, Pls check the following new item. This is India's first elctric railway line. The railways plan to replace all old signals and infrastructure here....
There have been a lot of developments and destruction of Indian Railways heritage in the past two months. All old original GIP electric masts in Mumbai have...
Dear Sir, You are doing a great service in fighting to conserve the heritage of Indian Railways. I have seen your postings on the IRsuggestions website. But...
Hello, A bull-headed track of the GIP is now visible partially sunken on the left-hand side of the slow down track near Kurla station in Mumbai division of ...
Dear Sir, The Central Railway is now in the process of removing old electric masts on its harbour line, mercilessly cutting them into pieces and selling them...
New pics of GIP's old rails and sleepers have been uploaded to the Photos section of this group today. The condemned sleepers are lying at Bhandup in CR's...
The Maharashtra state government has raised the issue of freeing the Bombay Port Trust land. The issue is being debaded whther the land should be opened for...
DARJEELING LOCO EXCHANGE REVIVED Rajendra Aklekar, Mumbai New Delhi: The Indian Ministry of Railways and the Leighton Buzzard Railway have agreed in principle...
UNESCO ACTIVELY CONSIDERING TO ACCORD WORLD HERITAGE STATUS TO MUMBAI CST BUILDING AND NILGIRI RAILWAY A TWO MEMBER MISSION FROM UNESCO CONCLUDES ITS WEEK LONG...
Friends, Success. The Central Railway's Chief Public Relations Manager has sent me a letter by snail mail acknowledging the fact that he has initiated the ...
Welcome everyone! As you may have checked out from the archives, I have been the lone soul fighting the battle to preserve railway heritage with the mighty ...
RIP -- GIP wares The Central Railway wiped out one of the few remaining relics of the British-formed Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) Company last week by...
Friends, The pics of the uprooted track chairs with GIPR inscriptions and the GIP original seals on electric masts are are up in the photos section. Pls check...
Dear Aklekar, Hope you remember me. Its a long time since i was in touch with you and both the groups of irhsg and irfca. I was away for a few month because of...
A section of old bull-head GIP track has been unearthed near Bhandup station in Mumbai's CR division. The rails are intact and are placed on waht are perhaps...
The Indian Railways Heritage Suport group is now open to one and all. Its membership has been switched to unmoderated with access to everyone. Check archives...
Hi, There seem to be lot of heritage of the erstwhile BB&CI Railway furniture lying along the WR lines. Does anybody, preferably living along the WR in Bombay,...
The South's first station There is no building of the Railways more worthy of being called a heritage building than the Royapuram Railway station. And that is ...
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