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'''Diamond Harbour Dock and Wet Dock Proposals, 1846'''
<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=RBoYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA362#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books  ‘The Calcutta Review, no XIV, Volume 7’ Jan-June 1847. "OUR INDIAN RAILWAYS” Article II, pages 362 to 366; by the Editors of the ‘Calcutta Review’,  Calcutta 1847]; Retrieved  25 Mar 2018</ref>

The ‘Diamond Harbour Dock and Railway Company’ proposal of 1846 was for the establishment of a Wet Dock at [[Diamond Harbour]] and a railway and canal from the Docks to [[Calcutta]].

The Consulting Engineer to Government, [[Frederick Walter Simms|Mr Frederick Walter Simms]] put forward a justification for the construction of Wet Docks. He reports that the ships “lie at anchor in the Hooghly River in the tide way opposite Fort William and the City of Calcutta, over a length of 4½ miles(7km), averaging 300 yds(275mtrs) in breadth,  with large ships anchoring in one line about the middle of the channel ... ships are exposed to danger ... from storms, violence of the bore, fire and other causes.”  

A ‘Wet Dock Committee’ had been set up by Government in 1844 examined and estimated two proposals:-
*[[Kidderpore]], a suburb of Calcutta, which was recommended by the Committee
*[[Diamond Harbour]], at a distance of 28½ miles(46km) by rail or by water  50 miles(80km) down the river. 

The Chairman of the ‘Diamond Harbour Dock and Railway Company’, Mr Charles Prinsep,  challenged the estimates and recommendations of the ‘Committee’ . He put forward estimates and a proposal to construct the Wet Docks at [[Diamond Harbour]] and provide a railway line to [[Calcutta]].

The ‘Committee’ concluded:- “as Docks and Railways involve several connected questions, we think that neither the Diamond Harbour, nor the Kidderpore Docks can be safely decided upon, until it is known where the terminus of the ‘[[Great Trunk Railway from Calcutta|Grand Trunk Railway]]’ is to be”

==Further Information==
See '''[[Calcutta Port and Docks - Railways]]''' for further information on other developments to the Calcutta Port

==References==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Port Railways]]