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Today's City Station, as it is commonly known in Karachi, covers a vast region. Off I. I. Chundrigar Road, it forms an intriguing zone if you consider the 19th century Wallace Bridge facing the DO block - that leads from I. I. Chundrigar Road to the City Railway Colony - a part of it. The bridge cannot be taken as a separate piece. It completes an interesting overhead shot of the whole area. There are tiny garages (and a couple of offices) filling up the arches under the overpass where railway officers now park their cars.

It is a task to find or stumble upon commemorative plaques indicating the time these facilities were made, but one placed on a divisional office wall may suffice. The foundation stone of this building was laid by Lt Col R. E Gordon M.C.R.E, Div Supt N.W.R on 30th Sept 1935 Hormusji & Daruvala Contractors. Not a great deal of information is available on the date of construction of the station building, what can be said about it though is that it looks more aged than the structure facing it. The white choona must come off it and it should at least be sandblasted like the one inaugurated by Lt Col Gordon.

[Source: Karachi Legacies of Empires by Peerzada Salman]

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