"An Indian railway station," from the Illustrated London News, 1854; *a very large scan of this engraving*
Source: ebay, June 2004
"Opening of the Madras railway," from the Illustrated London News, 1856
Source: ebay, Dec. 2007
The track loop: trains climbed up to Darjeeling, then turned around and headed back down; an albumen print, c.1870; *another view of the Darjeeling track loop, c.1880's*; *another Darjeeling railway scene, c.1890's*; *a railway bridge near Darjeeling, c.1890's*
Source: ebay, May 2008
"The Bhor Ghat: Gradient of the Railway Near Khandala, India"; a wood engraving from 1884
Source: ebay, Apr. 2006
"The ghats, or "steps," by which the range is interrupted at intervals, have naturally acquired exceptional importance, as affording direct communication between the peoples of the coast and the plateau. North-east of Kalyan lies the Thal, or Kasara ghat, traversed by the main highway and by the railway from Bombay to Calcutta, which, by a gradient of 26 millimetres in the yard, attains an elevation of 1,900 feet. The Bhor ghat, formerly known as the "Key of the Dekkan," is even lower, being only 1,800 feet high; but it is crossed at a much steeper incline by the Bombay-Madras railway, which, before the opening, of the lines over the Alps, Rocky Mountains, and Andes, was regarded as one of the greatest triumphs of modern engineering skill. All the other ghats south of this pass have hitherto been utilised only by tracks and carriage-roads, but they are so numerous that every town and village on the coastlands enjoys direct access to the plateau. Most of them are jealously guarded by garhs, or forts, whose frowning ramparts crown every rocky prominence. Some of these strongholds are perched on the edge of precipices accessible only by steps hewn in the live rock, or by hidden galleries."
"The Loop, Darjeeling," an albumen photo by Bourne and Shepherd, c.1880's, showing another feat of railway engineering
Source: ebay, Mar. 2008
"Thirty miles an hour: trolleying down to New Chaman from the Khojak Tunnel on the Quetta and Khojak Railway," from The Graphic, 1894
Source: ebay, Mar. 2006
A private rail-trolley ride; an albumen photo, c.1880's-90's
Source: ebay, Feb. 2008
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