Click on images to get a full-screen (72 dpi) version; see also the links below each image.

Map of early railroads in India (1825-49)  300 dpi [214 K]	Tank locomotive built 1892 in Glasgow, on the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway (photo from 1960s) 300 dpi [512 K]
Map of India railroads (1872-1932)  400 dpi [151 K]	The East Indian Railway, lithograph from the Illustrated London News (19 Sept. 1853)  300 dpi [260 K]

Railroads and Development:

• Karl Marx on "The Future Results of British Rule in India" (1853)

Additional websites: Library of Congress photos -- direct link to 32 select images of Indian railroads photographed by the World Transportation Commission in 1894-96.  Among the 'must-see' images are the Choonbatty Loop in the Himalayas and Bombay's Victoria Station.  (A local list of these 32 images, with selected images). National Rail Museum -- India's "first" museum on the Web; see e.g. "Darjeeling Himalayan Railway" and many others India Railways -- present-day tourist information; short history from 1853 onward, with illustrations; network maps;  "India under the British" (part of Internet Modern History Sourcebook--a gold mine)