1,151
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Content revised
|system3details=
|gauge1= Broad gauge
|gauge1details= 2225 miles (1905)<br>4011 miles (1943)
|gauge2=
|gauge2details=
In 1862, the [[Jamalpur]] Locomotive workshops were established. On 15 January 1935, the Jamalpur Workshops along with the entire railway colony was destroyed by an earthquake. It took 3 years to rebuild.
The Government of India (GoI) acquired the assets of the EIR on 31 December 1879 while leaving the management to the private company. The GoI took over the direct running of the EIR on 1 January 1925. In 1952. the EIR was merged with the [[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]] (BNR) to form Indian Railways' '''Eastern Railway'''. In 1955, BNR was demerged to form '''South East Railway'''.
