India's disappearing railways
Subtitle: a photographic journey
By: Angus McDonald ; foreword by Sir Mark Tully
Contributors: Tully, Mark, author of foreword; Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781783130115
Subjects: Railroads; Description and travel; Pictorial works
Description: "[This book] is an intimate and humourous portrait of life on the trains, evoking the very soul of India with ... empathy and insight which illustrates the lives of those who ride them, work on them, and live alongside them. ... Yet as a nation steadily modernises these railways... [the book] records a way of life that is slowly fading and documents the diversity of this vast and multi-layered country from a unique standpoint."--Book jacket.
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Royal Geographic Society, opening December 2014.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Mark Tully; title: Introduction; title: The Gwalior Light Railway; title: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway; title: The Aravali railways; title: The Kangra Valley Railway; title: The Dabhoi railways; title: The Shakuntala Express; title: The Kalka-Shimla Railway; title: The Matheran Light Railway; title: The Nilgiri Mountain Railway; title: Postscript.