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== History == | == History == | ||
Later renamed the [[North Western Railway]], by 1905 it was the longest railway under one administration and the strategic railway of the north- | Later renamed the [[North Western Railway]], by 1905 it was the longest railway under one administration and the strategic railway of the north-west frontier. In 1947, one part became the nucleus of Pakistan's railways, with 4976 of the old system's 6861 miles lying within the new state; the part lying in India was reorganised and renamed as [[Eastern Punjab Railway]]. | ||
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== | == Institutions == | ||
[[Schools#F|North Western Railway School]], Fairlawn, [[Mussoorie]]. | |||
== Recommended reading == | |||
*Berridge, Percy Stuart Attwood. ''Couplings to the Khyber: the story of the North Western Railway''. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969. | |||
Good coverage of the largest Indian railway system, especially from a civil engineering perspective. Lacks a bibliography and poorly annotated. [Slides of the photographs used form a collection deposited at the [[Cambridge South Asian Archive]] together with copies of the ''North Western Railway Magazine'', the monthly staff magazine edited by the author.] | |||
*''North Western Railway Magazine''. | |||
Monthly staff magazine. Some editorial content published in Urdu . No BL holdings. 2 copies (November 1942, December 1945) are held in the Berridge Papers, [[Cambridge South Asian Archive]]. | |||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
[http://members.tripod.com/shankardubai/nwrhome.htm | *Terry Case, [http://members.tripod.com/shankardubai/nwrhome.htm ''North Western Railway'']. | ||
*[http://www.nr.indianrail.gov.in/scripts/static/history.aspx "History of Northern Railway"], ''Northern Railway''. | |||
[[Category:Railways]] | [[Category:Railways]] | ||
[[Category:State Railways]] | [[Category:State Railways]] | ||
[[Category:Pakistan Railways]] | |||