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taxi car drivers had to sit separate in a front seat till 1900 --1940

taxi stand 1900











 




 
some taxi man sit at back

















private cars people used to sit together




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Frontier Mail hauled by Steam Engine near Vasai

 

                                                 Dadar Station

 

First train to run across the newly constructed Vasai Bridge.

 

Frontier Mail hauled by Steam Engine near Bassai (Vasai) - 1930

 

H class 4-6-0 locomotives were designed to haul fast and heavy passengers trains of the era. No. 554 here is showing what it is capable of 

 

A meter gauge BBCIR locomotive. No. 98 was a B class 0-4-4 tank locomotive built by Dubs in 1874. Earlier examples were built by Naysmth Wilson. The location of this picture could be Ajmer works. 

 

A resplendent H class 4-6-0 locomotive No. 348 

is probably being prepared for a royal trip.

 

D1 class 4-4-0 locomotive No. 248. It was known as `Princess May'

 

H class 4-6-0 locomotive No. 542

 hauling what appears to be a mail train 

 

No. 345 was member of H class 4-6-0 locomotives. This engine was built by North British in Glasgow in 1909. 

 

Frontier Mail hauled by an H class 4-6-0 locomotive 

No. 511, pulls out of Ballard Pier Railway Station

 

An Indian Flying Scotsman! P class locomotives No. 601 & 602 were precursor to the XC class locomotives. These two were built by Kitson in 1924

 

Steam locomotive belonging to BB & CI Railways hauls a passenger train into Bombay Central. Note the relatively new and elegant cabin building.