Baripada-Talbond Railway

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The Baripada-Talbond Railway was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) extension to the NG Mayurbhanj Railway, owned by private company; worked by the Bengal-Nagpur Railway(BNR) [1]. The line opened in 1920

Records

Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the Fibis shop. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the India Office Records (IOR) held at the British Library

An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway [2] gives the following: -

  • L /F/8/20/1682 “Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company Limited, Contract for the maintenance, management and working of the Mayurbhanj Railway and the Baripada-Talbond extension”

References

  1. ↑ " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 11; Retrieved 30 Jan 2016
  2. ↑ “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search; Retrieved 20 Jan 2016
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