Footprints on the Track

Anglo-Indians were once the backbone of the Indian Railway System.
They gave their utmost to keep the wheels moving with maintained loyalty and devotion that drew weekly mail the world over.

In the railway colonies, Anglo-Indian ideas and housewives kept the home fires burning. They also promoted the spirit of goodwill, social intercourse, young and old, master and servant, neighbours and friends, enjoyed their canteen sports and yet lived together as one big family.

These are true stories of simple, ordinary folk who worked hard, played like champions and enjoyed life to the full, spreading their cheerful influence all around.

This book is thousands of real vintage photographs to bring back golden memories. As a slice of history, it will live eternally for the reader and researcher.

This book will prove a treasure to the vast population that make one of the Anglo-Indian community's largest diaspora — i.e. Australian, New Zealand & Canada.

It is a first memory that celebrates our Anglo-Indian community's remarkable long life with Indian Railways.

— Phyllis Menon
The Times of India

It forms a veritable tiny (Anglo-Indian) museum over a microcosm of minority. Yet the contribution to the Indian Railway was monumental. The book recalls with emotion and revives the unique idea of Anglo-Indian merryment and their rail life.

The nuggets of preparation that make the book more than a mere pictorial miracle. With four decades of railway service providing the keyhole to many nations, one can be sure to embark into memory—the professional and the social.

— Keith Ross
The Mail

**When I read the article I could almost hear the clickety-clack as we journeyed on these engines, smell the oil and the air, hear the loco shed, and tell the gang of old porters, sing into my ears while looking out of carriage windows.

— Roy Dyer
Writer & Journalist