When I was a child my mother would take my brother and me to her childhood home in Nellore every summer. We took the train from the Secunderabad station. There, she rushed us past shops stacked with biscuit packets, brightly painted tin toys, and Chandamama magazines. We dodged people with large baskets singing out their wares: ‘Idli Dosa, Idlidosa!’, ‘Chai, Coffee!’ Train journeys in India are so marvelously and uniquely Indian, I have to remind myself that they are, in fact, a brainchild of the British. James Broun­Ramsay, the first Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856, first conceived of the Railways in India, intending it to be a “series of public monuments vastly surpassing in grandeur, the aqueducts of Rome, the pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, and the temples, palaces, and mausoleums of the great Moghul monument.” Clearly, the British intended their stamp on India to be both indelible and outsized. During those train journeys to Nellore, my brother and I vied for the top berth. We watched as stations came and receded into the distance. One of the stations that arrived late into the night was Bitragunta. As a rail station, Bitragunta is without distinction. But its unusually long platform, scalloped window awnings, and slanting red roof hint at a hidden history. In the late 19th and until the mid 20th century,Bitragunta had a railway yard and one of the largest mechanical locomotive turntables sheds in India. As an important railway junction, the town had over a thousand railway quarters, which housed English supervisors, engineers, officials, priests, teachers, and their families. Around that time, my great grandmother was a young girl in Nellore. While she lived in gosham, or veiled segregation from men outside the family, just 40 km away at the Bitragunta Railways Institute, Englishmen and their women danced together, twirling and laughing to western music. 

Answer the following questions from the above passage- 

1. What are the things considered from Secunderabad station?

2. Who was the Indian governor-general before Dalhousie?

3. What did the British intend on India?

4. Which of the stations arrived late at night?

5. Who lived in more than a thousand quarters of the city?