CST's Victoria missing without a trace

December 21, 2015 09:04

A standing statue of Queen Victoria, for years considered the jewel in the crown of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, appears to have mysteriously vanished years ago, with railway officials clueless on whether it was removed decades ago or if its disappearance was a handiwork of some miscreants.

A record of what happened to the iconic statue of Queen Victoria, from which the station drew its identity and its original name Victoria Terminus, is now nowhere to be found -- neither in the dossiers of the Indian Railways, nor with the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum where it was supposedly kept.

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