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The Great Southern of India Railway (GSIR) was formed in 1858 for "the construction and working of a railway from Negapatam to Trichinopoly, with branches to Salem and Tuticorin - total, about 300 miles. Capital 500,000l. (for the works at present authorized to be proceeded with, - viz., the line from Negapatam to Trichinopoly). Rate of Interest Guaranteed - 5 per cent." [1]
William Smith Betts was the first Agent of the Great Southern of India Railway [2], #p.210 and 214[3]. The Chief Engineer Mark William Carr was appointed in 1858 [4]
History
The construction of the line from Negapatam via Tiruvallur to Tanjore (48 miles/77km) started in April 1859 to broad gauge(BG) standards and the was opened to traffic by December 1861 . The headquarters were at Negapatam with the Agent, Chief Engineer, Locomotive Superintendent and Traffic Superintendent and Workshops . The line reached Trichinopoly in 1862 #p.2,3,6,7[2].
David Logan was Resident Engineer on the construction from 1858 until 1863, when he succeeded Mark William Carr as Chief Engineer, a position he held until resigning in 1866 to superintend the reclamation work at Back Bay, Bombay.
In 1864 November Frederick Lewis Dibblee, on his arrival in Madras, was engaged as Engineer-in-Charge on the GISR, then District Engineer and later Chief Engineer, a position he continued to hold until August 1868, when he resigned and transferred to the Carnatic Railway [5]
In 1865 the administrative offices were opened at Trichinopoly leaving at Negapatam the Agent's office (which moved in and Workshops (which moved in 1886)at
In 1868, the GSIR line reached Erode, connecting to the Madras Railway and David Logan was reappointed as Chief Engineer.
In 1872, the GSIR merged with with the Carnatic Railway, built to metre gauge, to form the South Indian Railway.
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 [6] gives 46 references. The most important being:-
- L /AG/46/13 “Records of the Great Southern of India Railway Company; 1859-1874”
Unfortunately, there are no GSIR staff records held in the India Office Records at the British Library.
Notes
(1) "Money Market and City Intelligence", The Times, Wednesday, 15 June 1859, #23333, 7a.
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References
- ↑ "Money Market and City Intelligence", The Times, Wednesday, 15 June 1859, #23333, 7a.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Southern Railway Heritage Centre "Marvels of the South Indian Railway 1859-1951". With page numbers indicated #p.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedMotSI - ↑ Grace's Guide "Mark William Carr"; Retrieved 18 June 2016
- ↑ Frederick Dibblee, MICE Biography "Frederick Lewis Dibblee"; Retrieved 18 June 2016
- ↑ British Library “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search; Retrieved 22 Jan 2016