Railway Timetables 1839 – Bradshaw’s

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. While the necessity of a national timetable was obvious, it raised one fundamental and thorny question: what time is it? . The 1830s saw a boom in railway building in England, as local companies seized their chance to establish themselves within a burgeoning national rail network. A national timetable, however, did not appear until this weekend in 1839. Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables, which included train times for both the north and south along with an "Assistant to Railway Travelling with Illustrative Maps and Plans", aimed to rein in rampant confusion within an uncoordinated system. "The necessity of such a work is so obvious as to need no apology," wrote Bradshaw in the

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Birthday wishes for Indian Railways! First passenger train ran 166 years ago; check cool facts
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Happy Birthday wishes to Indian Railways! April 16 is a very special day for Indian Railways as today, exactly 166 years ago, the very first passenger train ran from Bori Bunder (now Mumbai’s CSMT or Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) to Thane in Maharashtra. According to a tweet shared Ministry of Railways, on 16 April 1853, the 14-carriage

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जबलपुर रेलवे स्टेशन पर आज मंगलवार 16 अप्रेल को भारतीय रेलवे के गौरवशाली 166 वर्षों का इतिहास डाक टिकिटों के माध्यम से प्रदर्शित किया

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A  Historical Letter Dated 02 – 07 – 1909
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*A  Letter which created history* Date: letter0 2 - 07 - 1909 Divisional Railway Officer, Sahibgunj, Respected Sirs, I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow or train to go off and I am running

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40 साल पुराना हेरिटेज इंजन बढ़ाएगा टाटा स्टेशन की शोभा
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40 वर्ष पुराने मॉडल रेल इंजन (140 टन वजनी) को टाटानगर स्टेशन के पार्सल विभाग के सामने स्थापित किया जाएगा। यह एक हेरिटेज लोको इंजन है।

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January 7, 2019

Ministry of Railways has initiated several measures to promote heritage preservation in the Railways. These include revival of Steam Locomotives, up-keeping Hill Railways, special delegation of powers to Divisions for promoting Hill and Steam tourism, strengthening Railway museums, conservation of built heritage, digitization of Railway Heritage

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