Southern Shan States Railway
The Southern Shan States Railway was a metre gauge(MG) branch of the Burma Railway(BR), 87 miles (139 km) in length. [1]
The line was opened in stages from 1912 to 1914 when a line was built from Thazi on the Rangoon-Mandalay section of BR to Kalaw, a hill station in the hills of the Southern Shan State; a line length of 62 miles(99km) [2] [3].
The line was later to be extended to Yawnghwe, giving a total length of 109 miles(174km)[1].
Records
An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [4] gives several entries, the most relevant as follows: -
- L/F/8/20/1615; “Burma Railways Company Limited, Contract for working of Southern Shan States Railway”; 24 May 1921
- L/F/7/2164; “ Collection 370/9: Railways: Miscellaneous: Burma Railways, contract for the working of the Southern Shan States Railway”; 1920-22
Further Information
See Burma Railway
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 176; Retrieved 21 Dec 2015
- ↑ Wikipedia "History of rail transport in Burma"; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015
- ↑ "Hill Lines of India"; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015
- ↑ “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search; Retrieved 20 Dec 2016