![]() And these were punctuated by railway stations - large and small, but each with an architectural stamp of its own. If you were of a generation before India got a plethora of airlines, chances are that your holidays involved long train journeys. With both grandfathers in the railways (rather one in SIR and the other M&SM, which together became the Southern Railway), I came to love the railway stations, the platforms, the echoing stairways and the magnificent office buildings. That was meant for the European officers. ![]() “Did you dance there?” I asked, having visions of grandmother in her diamonds and nine yards doing the waltz. I must have been seven and she was telling me about the time her husband was one of the bosses of the South Indian Railway (SIR) Company. ![]() “We had a ball room in the railway bungalow,” said grandmother. The author, with long service in the railways and retiring as a member of the Board, was actively involved in the proposals that resulted in both the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (VT) and the Kalka-Shimla Railway line being declared UNESCO World Heritage sites.
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