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'''East Indian Railway Personnel''' - a sub-section of [[East Indian Railway]](EIR) page.


==Personnel==
==India Office Records==
The following employment records held at the IOR are relevant :-
*'''L/AG/46/11/133-137''' "Contracts of appointment, c1858-1925" (possibly not all included)
The above is indexed in
*'''Z/L/AG/46''' "Index to UK Appointments to Indian Railways (1849-1925)"
*'''FIBIS database''' [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1989&s_id=1068 List of Indian Railways UK Contracted Staff taken from IOR Series L/AG/46/12].
The following is not included in the index Z/L/AG/46.
*'''L/AG/46/11/138-141''' : "Half-yearly staff lists, 1861-1890 & 1911-1922" (giving ages from 1886).
==EIR Personnel - Chronological Order==
The following are notable -
*[[Rowland Macdonald Stephenson]]; 1845 onwards - see [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/East_Indian_Railway#History "East Indian Railway - History" page]
*[[Alexander Meadows Rendel]]; 1855
*[[William St. John Galwey]]; 1857, jointed EIR as Assistant Engineer. He was to have joined the staff employed on the works of the [[Soane Bridge]], then in charge of Mr. Samuel Power, but the Indian mutiny having broken out, he could not proceed up country, and so remained for the rest of that year in the office of the Chief Engineer, George Turnbull, in Calcutta; 1858-63, Resident Engineer - construction of  the  [[EIR Jamalpur Locomotive Workshops ]]; 1863, survey  of the EIR ‘First  Chord line’;  1864, proposal for railway bridge across the River Hooghly and a terminus in Calcutta, in place of that in Howrah, the project, although approved, was not carried out; 1865, Engineer in charge of EIR Junction District including Kurraballie or Colliery branch, promoted 1867 to District Engineer; 1870, EIR Burdwan District, then Assanol  engine-changing station facilities construction<ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/William_St._John_Galwey "Graces Guide - William St. John Galwey”]; Retrieved on  5 Jun 2016</ref>.
*[[Frederick Smith Stanton]] Major General R.E.; 1887-92, after 27 years service with the [[:Category:State Railways|State Railways]] and following his retirement as Director General of Indian Railways, served on the Board of the East Indian Railway Company, based in London <ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Frederick_Smith_Stanton "Grace's Guide - Frederick Smith Stanton”]; Retrieved on 5 Jun 2016</ref>.
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Railway People]]

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