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(Note : The EBR became the [[Eastern Bengal State Railway]], owned and managed by the Government of India (GoI), on 30 June 1884).
<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangaon_railway_station Wikipedia "Bangaon Railway Station"]; Retrieved xx Dec 2015</ref>
The following is held Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the [http://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0004-research-sources-for-indian-railways-1845-1947/ Fibis shop]. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]] but has not been included in the index, Z/L/AG/46.
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<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-u45CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT92&lpg=PT92&dq=Bengal+Central+Railway&source=bl&ots=_g7fsMtoW4&sig=tubQHwdNG9zS51eQVpOBCafTHYM&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYtf2g8_jJAhWEgA8KHVT7AO4Q6AEIVzAI#v=onepage&q=Bengal%20Central%20Railway&f=false "Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914" by Stuart Sweeney]; Retrieved 27 Dec 2015</ref>
== History ==
[[Dum Dum]] to [[Khulna]] via [[Bangoan]] , 108 miles(172km) opened in stages and completed in 1884.
In 1904/5, to ensure better management, the BCR merged into the [[Eastern Bengal State Railway]] (EBR) that had been formed in 1884 by the GoI and expanded in 1887 from the amalgamation of other lines working in the region.
The former BCR lines became the basis of the Kulna Branch Railway of the EBR network.
<ref>Railway Raj Safari 1a by Keith Scholey</ref>
== Records ==
An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway<ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search "]; Retrieved 20 Jan 2016</ref> gives 27 references. The most important being:- *''' L/AG/46/4''' “Records of the Bengal Central Railway Company; 1856-1906”*''' L/AG/46/24''' “Records of the India Office relating to the Bengal Central Railway Company; 1903-1916” ==Personnel Records=='''List of Employees''' The following record is applicable*''' L/AG/46/4/11 : ''' "List of employees " (1886-1896)”. ''Research comment - not included in the index Z/L/AG/46.'' '''Miscellaneous Records'''*[[Willoughby Charles Furnivall]] was 'on loan' from [[Railway Branch - PWD]] during the period 1874-90 in charge of a number of locally administered State railways, which included the BCR <ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.222 Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland - Furnivall, Willoughby Charles"]; Retrieved on 21 Jul 2016</ref>. '''Following merger with EBR in 1904/5''' this railway became a State Railway; a search of the following may yield a result *'''L/F/8/1-20''' "Appointments to State Railways made in the UK 1855-1946" *'''Z/L/F/8/1-2''' Index to Appointments to State Railways made in the UK 1855-1946" ==External Links==*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangaon_railway_station "Bangaon Railway Station"] Wikipedia ==Further Information==See [[Eastern Bengal Railway - Lines owned and worked]]
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