Kharagpur

Kharagpur is situated about 120km west of Calcutta, a junction on the Bengal Nagpur Railway

Photograph of the Kharagpur Loco Running Staff 1910

Originally it was the railway suburb of Midnapore (Medinipur), but increased in importance when BNR made it the headquarters, with workshops, of its Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Departments

Spelling variants

Kharagpur, Khargpur

External links

• Kharagpur, West Bengal Wikipedia
• Kharagpur’s Diaspora Reunited Website of Corinne Joy Baxter née Crampton for “friends of BNR people”. Her father was a Foreman in the Boiler Dept until they left in 1950. The website contains many photographs.
• "Highlights In The Shadows" by Owen Clement includes memories of Kharagpur Part 4 His father’s appreniceship, Part 10 Early Life, Part 15 Kharagpur, Part 16 Railway Institute
• "Bengal Nagpur Railway picnics and outings" from Farewell the Winterline, Memories of a Boyhood in India by Stanley Elwood Brush, born 1925
• "Book Review: Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self Columbia University Press. New York, 2007 by Laura Bear and Reviewed By Robyn Andrews" The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 11, Number 1, 2011. Part of the research for this book was carried out at Kharagpur.
• /Kharagpur Workshop, South Eastern Railway
• Photograph of the Railway Workshop in 1909
• Kharagpur Division [South Eastern Railway] now an archived webpage. Includes a photograph of Kharagpur Station
• India List post with details of the history of Kharagpur
• The Bengal-Nagpur Railway Lockout Kharagpur 1927 marxists.org