NCR - maar bhi, raftaar bhi - Harshit Sharma

Oh, the '180 years of Indian Railways'? I was feeling very nostalgic and had to put that up. :)
We had tried searching around Chintadripet and sifting through presidency gazettes during my engineering, hoping to at least get a hint of where the Redhill railroad ran. Internet wasn't really that helpful then and we had to rely on books and a few enthusiastic staff in the Egmore station. Sadly, nothing from that era remains today and other than some intelligent guessing, we could not really get any solid information. :(
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But on the upside, we did gather a considerable amount of information about IR's history in general. I was surprised to learn that there used to be railways in many places that I used to go through regularly!! Even the Andaman islands were home to railways once!!
May be it's just good for satisfying my curiosity, but IR's history, the railway history of each place in the country, is very fascinating and speaks volumes about the struggles the British and the locals had to face, so that IR is the giant network it is today! Just the Pune-Mumbai railway route needed the sacrifice from over 25000 Indian workers and the designers of the route, who all perished in building the challenging ghat route. It is such efforts lost in the annals of history, which should be brought into the light to give us a chance to appreciate the brave souls who gave us this vast network!!