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**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamalpur,_Munger#Railway_workshop Railway workshop] | **[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamalpur,_Munger#Railway_workshop Railway workshop] | ||
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/onjama~1.html "On Jamalpur - Anglo-Indian Railway Officers"], by Blair Williams ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 6, Number 2, 2001 | *[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/onjama~1.html "On Jamalpur - Anglo-Indian Railway Officers"], by Blair Williams ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 6, Number 2, 2001 | ||
*[http://www.pricewebhome.co.uk/Docs/Price/Railways/Railways.htm Railway Colonies in India] by John Alton Price. Includes his time in Jamalpur with the Army in 1942. From his family website. | |||
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3L2yGpa8s&feature=share Video on history and present of Jamalpur workshop Eastern Railway] You Tube | *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3L2yGpa8s&feature=share Video on history and present of Jamalpur workshop Eastern Railway] You Tube | ||
*[http://thejamalpur.wordpress.com/category/jamalpur-railway-workshop Jamalpur Railway Workshop] thejamalpur.wordpress.com | |||
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/dharmasphere/92153350/in/set-1472372/ Photograph of the gravestone] of “Thomas Ouilon Roberts, formerly of the Volcan Foundry, Waddington and after wards Foreman of the Locomotive Erecting Shop, Jamalpur, who lost his life from the effects of an encounter with a tiger, near this place. Died 13th Day June, 1864 Age 27 years” flickr.com | |||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
Revision as of 06:53, 2 February 2012
Situated 299 miles from Calcutta, "Jamalpur is the head-quarters of the locomotive department of the East Indian Railway and contains the largest manufacturing workshops in India". (Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908)
The Locomotive workshops were established in 1862. On 15 January 1935, the workshops along with the entire railway colony were destroyed by an earthquake. It took 3 years to rebuild the facility.
External links
- Jamulpur, Munger Wikipedia including
- "On Jamalpur - Anglo-Indian Railway Officers", by Blair Williams The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies Volume 6, Number 2, 2001
- Railway Colonies in India by John Alton Price. Includes his time in Jamalpur with the Army in 1942. From his family website.
- Video on history and present of Jamalpur workshop Eastern Railway You Tube
- Jamalpur Railway Workshop thejamalpur.wordpress.com
- Photograph of the gravestone of “Thomas Ouilon Roberts, formerly of the Volcan Foundry, Waddington and after wards Foreman of the Locomotive Erecting Shop, Jamalpur, who lost his life from the effects of an encounter with a tiger, near this place. Died 13th Day June, 1864 Age 27 years” flickr.com
Historical books online
- Jamalpur Town Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 14, page 43 (1908)
- Among the Railway Folk by Rudyard Kipling 1888. Web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide.
- Article Among the Railway Folk from Kipling.org.uk
