India’s Central Railway is digitizing and posting historical records of its Central Railway online. Over 2000 books, journals, records, and letters are being processed. Following is a teaser from an article posted in the October 30, 2016 edition of mid-day.com.
Imagine getting the chance to go back in time when the first passenger train ran from Bori Bunder to Thane in 1853. This defining moment in India’s history, as it turns out, was heralded by misconceptions and apprehensions. The English railway officers weren’t sure if this new mode of transport would be received with enthusiasm by the ‘natives’, who had been used to roads and waterways….
In a digitisation programme launched last week by the Central Railway, these blasts from the past are in the form of books, documents and letters from the mid-1800s onwards. For instance, the above lines are from a retrospective hardbound booklet, published in 1900, titled The Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Under the Original Company’s Administration.
