The men who donated land to the Railways of India

My Great Grandfather M M Venugopal Reddy Yekollu (holding a Cane), with his brother M.M Rajagopal Reddy (sitting right), – Bangalore railway track. Circa 1930

Image and Narrative contributed by Sanjay, UK

In this image My great grandfather M.M Venugopal Reddy Yekollu (holding a Cane), with his brother M.M Rajagopal Reddy inspects the freshly re-laid Jolarpet-Bangalore railway track. His father had donated the stretch of land to the British to lay tracks from Jolarpet to Kuppam. This place hasnt changed much, it is only some 10 to 15 mins before the Kuppam station. My great Grandfather’s brother Rajagopal Reddy died from Tuberculosis.

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This Post Has 2 Comments

  1. An interesting picture. It would be interesting to go to the same place and take a picture to compare between then and now.

  2. The Rly photo of going in the trolly is very good.
    Thanks for this old remembrances.

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