Furruckabad (Farrukhabad) Tramway

The Furruckabad Tramway, 1854-85, is referred to the India Office Records (IOR) – see ‘Records’ below.

It has not been able to determine if this 'tramway on the river sands' was ever constructed or if, at a later date was incorporated into a railway line.

Furruckabad (later becoming Farrukhabad) is on the banks of the River Ganges.

Farrukhabad is the spelling given in the “Imperial Gazetteer of India,1909” which states ‘the Cawnpore-Achnera railway passes through the length of the district’.

The Cawnpore Farukhabad Provincial State Railway, metre gauge(MG) line from Farrukhabad to Miranserai (37 miles/59km) opened 1 February 1881 and Miranserai to Cawnpore (49 miles/78km) opened 15 December 1880. It is possible that the route of the tramway was incorporated into this railway. This railway became the Cawnpore-Achnera Provincial State Railway in 1884.

Records

The India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this tramway give two Catalogue References:-

• Z/E/4/25/G272; “Greenway, Messrs., farm of ferry and bridge at Furruckabad on engagement to lay down tramway”; 1854-1855

Z/E/4/25/F488; “ Furruckabad, Ferry and Bridge farmed to Messrs. Greenway on engagement to lay down Tramway on river sands”; 1854-1855

Both above references refer to the same document

• IOR/E/4/829, p1479 “SN 94 Farm to Messrs. Greenway of Cawnpore of the ferry and bridge at Farruckabad for 6 years at Rs 6,200 per annum They are engaging to lay down a tramway on the river sands.”