Long before airports became the gateways to Indian cities, railway stations carried that responsibility. They were where traders, soldiers, officials and migrants first stepped into Bombay, Calcutta, Madras or Delhi. But the British didn’t build these stations merely as transport hubs. Many were designed as statements of imperial ambition: grand, theatrical and impossible to ignore.7 railway stations in India with unbelievable colonial history
Long before airports became the gateways to Indian cities, railway stations carried that responsibility. They were where traders, soldiers, officials and migrants first stepped into Bombay, Calcutta, Madras or Delhi. But the British didn’t build these stations merely as transport hubs. Many were designed as statements of imperial ambition: grand, theatrical and impossible to ignore.
