Assam-Bengal Railway

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Assam-Bengal Railway
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Line of route
Chittagong to Tinsukia
Lumding to Gauhati
Lakshar to Chandpur (branch)
Badarpur to Silchar (branch)
Gauge / mileage
Metre gauge 740 miles (1905)
Timeline
1891 Construction started
1898 First section opened to traffic
1904 Traffic running throughout the length of the railway
Key locations
Presidency Bengal
Stations
System agency
1892 Assam-Bengal Railway
1942 Bengal and Assam Railway
How to interpret this infobox
Assam-Bengal Railway

Assam-Bengal Railway device
System timeline
1892 Company formed to manage state line
Constituent companies / lines
1892 Assam-Bengal Railway
Noakhali (Bengal) Railway
Key locations
Headquarters Chittagong
Workshops
Major Stations
Successor system / organisation
1942 Bengal and Assam Railway
System mileage
Metre gauge 775 miles (1905)
Associated auxiliary force
Assam Bengal Railway Battalion
How to interpret this infobox

The Assam-Bengal Railway (ABR) was a metre gauge(MG) railway built to connect the highlands of Assam with the port of Chittagong. [1]

Branch Lines

Lines worked by ABR

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 65 references. The most important being:-

  • L/AG/46/1 “Records of the Assam Bengal Railway Company; 1892-1941”
  • L/F/7/141-145 “Finance Department - Assam Bengal Railway Company; 1892-1941”

As a state managed railway a search of the following may provide information: -

  • L/F/8/1-20 "Appointments to State Railways made in the UK 1855-1946"
  • Z/L/F/8/1-2 Index to Appointments to State Railways made in the UK 1855-1946"

External links

  • The Assam-Bengal railway: Extracts from The Romantic East: Burma, Assam, Kashmir (1906) irfca.org
  • Take this train at your own peril by Jaideep Mazumdar February 23, 2013 timescrest.com. "The rail route through the Borail Hill Range between Lumding and Badarpur in Assam is considered to be an engineering marvel with 37 tunnels and a series of stunning bridges and viaducts spanning deep gorges and ravines. During the construction of this rail line, which took 11 years (it was completed in 1903) many died of malaria, diarrhoea, other diseases, attacks by wild animals. There were also killer landslides".

References