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Railways' massive archival journey to chug along 2.5 bn pages of history

The century-old railways archives include documents, orders, time tables, photographs, technical diagrams among others

Indian Railways
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Shine Jacob New Delhi
The Indian Railways is not just the country’s largest transporter of people and goods but also a window to India’s history.
 
But even little of this history is not archived. In order to sift through 2.2-2.5 billion pages, and catalogue and preserve some of them, the Railways is taking the largest-ever technology exercise by digitising its archives across the country.
 
The century-old railways archives include documents, orders, time tables, photographs, technical diagrams, engineering drawings, letters, annual reports, books and manuals. This will be the first planned effort to have a pan-Indian digital repository for the Indian Railways, which

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