Jamalpur
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Situated 299 miles from Calcutta, "Jamalpur is the head-quarters of the locomotive department of the East Indian Railway and contains the largest manufacturing workshops in India". (Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908)
The Locomotive workshops were established in 1862. On 15 January 1935, the workshops along with the entire railway colony were destroyed by an earthquake. It took 3 years to rebuild the facility.
External links
- Jamulpur, Munger Wikipedia including
- "On Jamalpur - Anglo-Indian Railway Officers", by Blair Williams The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 6, Number 2, 2001
- Video on history and present of Jamalpur workshop Eastern Railway You Tube
Historical books online
- Jamalpur Town Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 14, page 43 (1908)
- Among the Railway Folk by Rudyard Kipling 1888. Web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide.
- Article Among the Railway Folk from Kipling.org.uk
