Indian Railways. One Hundred Years. 1853 to 1953.

New Delhi, Ministry of Raiways (Railway Board) 1953, 4 Bll., 200 pp. With numerous b&w illustrations on plates. 4°, hardcover, gilt lettering.

the reader is taken to the earliest beginnings of railay construction in India. The later phases of expansion and development, the problems and difficulties which had to be faced in the process, and the final emergence of Indian Railways as the largest nationalised undertaking in the country, are described in a style intelligible to the non-technical reader. - Edges of binding minimally rubbed, small tears to head of spine, head of spine slightly bumped, else a fine copy.