In Pics: 10 Rare Photos Of Indian Railways From The Past You've Never Seen Before

The first locomotive to be fully manufactured in India in 1895, at the Ajmer Workshop of the Rajputana Malwa Railway.

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Churchgate Station was built in 1870 and is named after the street leading out of St. Thomas Church Gate.

Four-wheeler narrow gauge ambulance car of the Bengal Nagpur Railway.

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AC class comfort vs. the real struggles of third-class travel.

The first electric train ran on February 3, 1925, between Bombay VT (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Mumbai) and Coorla (now Kurla).

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Refugee travel between India and Pakistan on October 24, 1947.

Pt Nehru addressing the inauguration of Northern Railway in 1952.

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Nagpur Station on the day of its inauguration in 1925.

Dehradun Station in its early days.

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