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*[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://thejamalpur.wordpress.com/category/jamalpur-railway-workshop  Jamalpur Railway Workshop] thejamalpur.wordpress.com
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Railways-to-modernize-Jamalpur-workshop/articleshow/11829864.cms "Railways to modernize Jamalpur workshop"] by Kumod Verma, February 10, 2012 ''The Times of India'' Patna. Includes history of the workshop
*[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
*[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


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*[http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/railway/index.html ''Among the Railway Folk''] by Rudyard Kipling 1888. Web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide.  
*[http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/railway/index.html ''Among the Railway Folk''] by Rudyard Kipling 1888. Web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide.  
**Article [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_railwayfolk_intro.htm Among the Railway Folk] from Kipling.org.uk
**Article [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_railwayfolk_intro.htm Among the Railway Folk] from Kipling.org.uk
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[[Category:Locations]] [[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Bengal Presidency]]
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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 1934, the workshops along with the entire railway colony were destroyed by an earthquake. It took 3 years to rebuild the facility.

Spelling variants

Jamalpur, Jamalpore

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