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

Recommended Reading

• Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self Columbia University Press. New York, 2007 by Laura Bear. This book is reviewed in Transport and communications reading list

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 apprenticeship, Part 10 Early Life, Part 15 Kharagpur, Part 16 Railway Institute
• Photograph of the Railway Workshop in 1909
• Kharagpur Division [South Eastern Railway] now an archived webpage. Includes a photograph of Kharagpur Station
• The Bengal-Nagpur Railway Lockout Kharagpur 1927 marxists.org