1930: Churchgate, the first station of the Western Railway suburban network of Mumbai, was opened. 

1936: Jawaharlal Nehru, the then President of the Indian National Congress, on his arrival at the Madras Central Railway Station.

1956: President Rajendra Prasad laying the foundation-stone of the rail-cum-road bridge across the Ganga, near Patna.

Royapuram, erstwhile terminus for Madras, housed east-bound trains alone, following the construction of Central station in 1873.

1956: Railway Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and B. Ramakrishna Rao, Chief Minister of erstwhile Hyderabad, inspecting the site of the Mahbubnagar train disaster. 

1957: Eastern Railway's first electric train inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru at Howrah station.

1960s: Scenes from Punpun station, home to then Union Railway Minister Jagjivan Ram.

1973: Chairman of the Railway Board, Shri B.S.D. Baliga, showing the green signal to the Jayanti Janata Express on its maiden run from New Delhi Station.

1971: Signage at Karur station is damaged, after anti-Hindi agitations swept across the area. 

1976: A view of the panel and operating console centre at Egmore inaugurated by P.N. Jain Financial Commissioner, Railway Board. 

1984: The 'urn' containing the ashes of Indira Gandhi on a vehicle leaving the Central Railway Station to Rajaji Hall, in Madras.

1991: A bus trapped in a pothole before the Central Railway Station in Thiruvananthapuram.

Undated photo of Mahatma Gandhi in conversation with Jawaharlal Nehru at Howrah Station 

Individual services run by princely States or private individuals, before the formation of a single 'Indian Railways' governing body. 

2005: Sahib Sindh Sultan, a restaurant taking after the Sahib Sindh Sultan of 1853 that made Asia's first run from Bori Bunder to Thane.