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Indo-Burma Railway Connection Project
The Indo-Burma Railway Connection was a project undertaken by the Goverment of Burma to connect Chittagong, Assam to Rangoon, Burma. It was a fresh proposal following on from the Chittagong-Akyab-Minhla Railway Survey undertaken from 1893.
The proposed route was from Chittagong, Assam (now in Bangladesh); Akyab, Burma (now Sittwe, Myanmar); Magwee, Burma (now Myanmar) and then crossing the Irrewaddy River and southwards to Rangoon. This proposal dating from 1915 is covered by 5 records in the the India Office Records (IOR) held at the British Library – see Records below.
This project did not proceed. The Burma Railway network only extended as far as the Irrewaddy River.
Records
An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [1] gives the followingl entries, the most relevant as follows: -
- V/27/722/12; “Richards, George, Indo-Burma connection railway, coast route. Report and estimates, 1915: Section 1. Chittagong to Akyab. Rangoon, 1915”
- V/27/722/13; “Richards, George, Indo-Burma connection railway, coast route. Report and estimates, 1915: Section 2 and 3. Akyab Junction to Satya. Rangoon, 1915”
- V/27/722/14; “Richards, George, Indo-Burma connection railway, coast route. Report and estimates, 1915: Section 4. Satya to Magwe. Rangoon, 1915”
- V/27/722/15; “Richards, George, Indo-Burma connection railway, coast route. Report and estimates, 1915: Section 5. Lines east of Irrewaddy River. Rangoon, 1915
References
- ↑ “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search; Retrieved 4 Apr 2016