By Rajendra Aklekar, Mumbai: Officials of the Central Railway,
the country's oldest railway line, have found treasure in their
junkyard. A team of Matunga workshop officials, while going
through the junk at "We have also found a 1930s diesel-fired
Morris fire engine and rail bogies of the old era. We have set
up a small heritage gallery of all these items inside the
Matunga workshop," Jogendra Yadvendu, deputy chief materials
manager, carriage and repair workshop at Matunga, told DNA. Manu
Goel, executive director (heritage) railway board, in The oldest
surviving relics on Indian Railways as of today include a steam
locomotive called Fairy Queen dated 1855. These tiles have
inscriptions of Alvares and Company, Mangalore. The company was
named after Simon Alvares who had bought it in 1878. The
Manglorean tile industry dates back to that era and was first
set up at Jeppo, Mangalore, in mid 1850. The raw material for
the tiles, namely clay or feldspar, was abundantly available on
the banks of Netravati river. Co