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The scrapbook includes marketing materials, press cuttings and photographs related to the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway Electric Suburban Service which opened 5 January 1928. Items include: A marketing brochure for the railway titles, 'Another Step Forward', dated April 1928; Press cuttings about the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway and railway electrification in India. The cuttings are from The Times of India, Modern Transport, and The Evening News of India, published in January and February 1928; Page 11 from the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway Magazine, showing caracatures of notable figures at the opening ceremony; Programme and invitations to the opening ceremony; Photographs of the 1st trial train at Andheri, the opening ceremony, an electric train, photographs used in the marketing brochure, transmission towers and overhead lines at Santa Cruz, the coaches and bogies at the builder Cammell Laird in England, substations (including Bandra and Kandivli), structures, trains and offices on the line, driver's compartments, car sheds, wagons, control panels and electrical equipment. See also photograph reference Image 2/2/0009.