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East Indian Railway Personnel - a sub-section of East Indian Railway(EIR) page.
India Office Records
The following employment records held at the IOR are relevant :-
- L/AG/46/11/133-137 "Contracts of appointment, c1858-1925" (possibly not all included)
The above is indexed in
- Z/L/AG/46 "Index to UK Appointments to Indian Railways (1849-1925)"
- FIBIS database List of Indian Railways UK Contracted Staff taken from IOR Series L/AG/46/12.
The following is not included in the index Z/L/AG/46.
- L/AG/46/11/138-141 : "Half-yearly staff lists, 1861-1890 & 1911-1922" (giving ages from 1886).
EIR Personnel - Chronological Order
The following are notable, with period of service with EIR -
- EIR Agents [1] [2]
- Rowland Macdonald Stephenson Sir; Agent 1853-57. - See "East Indian Railway - History" page
- Edward Palmer; 1857-73.
- Cecil Stephenson; 1873-75.
- Bradford Leslie, Sir; 1876-87, previously Chief Engineer 1876-82.
- D W Campbell; Agent 1887-91.
- Richard Gardiner Lt.Col R.E.; 1891-99.
- James Douglas; 1899-1907.
- William A Dring Sir; 1907-12.
- Robert S Highet, Sir; 1912-18.
- J A Marshall; 1918-19
- Geo Colvin, Sir; 1921-33
- Hugh Hannay, Sir; 1933-34
- J A Bell; 1935-39
- Secretary to Agent
- Cecil Stephenson; 1858-65
- T.Lovelock; 1866-72
- W H Russell; 1872-78
- P.Wagstaff; 1878-1900
- H.Wood; 1900--
- EIR Consulting Engineers
- Alexander Meadows Rendel; 1855-87. Consulting Engineer to the EIR - Naini Bridge; Lansdowne Bridge; Jubilee Bridge [3]
- EIR Chief Engineere[2]
- George Turnbull; 1851-63.
- Samuel Power; 1863-1869. Previously General Assistant to the EIR Chief Engineer George Turnbull on construction of Soan Bridge and whole line; Institution of Civil Engineers Proceedings Volume 33 Issue 1872, 1872, pp. 240-241 ; Retrieved 5 Jun 2016</ref>.
- G Sibley; 1862-76. From 1862-68 he was Chief Engineer, Upper Provinces, Allahbad
- Bradford Leslie, Sir; 1876-82, later Agent.
- C H Denham; 1882-89
- F E Robertson; 1889-97
- E H Stone; 1897-1903
- C F Findlay; 1903
- R S Highet; 1903--
- EIR Chief Auditors
- Rob Roberts; 1863-77
- E C S Mackenzie; 1877-92
- J Douglas; 1893-1899
- T Bashford; 1899--
- EIR General Traffic Managers
- F Cox; 1858-59
- J C Batchelor; 1860-79. From 1860-66 Traffic Manager Howrah
- B P W Smyth; Before 1866 Traffic Manager Allahbad.
- W A Dring; 1897--
- EIR Carriage and Wagon Superintendents
- Robert Webb Pearce; 1855-1900. Carriage and Wagon Superintendent EIR Carriage and Wagon Workshop [5]
- EIR Engineering Department
- William St. John Galwey; 1857-72. Construction of EIR Jamalpur Locomotive Workshops ; Survey of the EIR ‘First Chord line’; District Engineer. In 1872 transferred to State Railways[6].
- Frederick Smith Stanton Major General R.E. 1887-92. Board of the East Indian Railway Company, based in London, this following his retirement as Director General of Indian Railways,after 27 years service with the State Railways.[7].
References
- ↑ “Symphony of Progress - The Saga of the Eastern Railway 1854-2003”; published by Eastern Railway, 2003; page 114
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 [ https://ia801404.us.archive.org/16/items/historyeastindi00huddgoog/historyeastindi00huddgoog.pdf Archive.org "History of the East Indian Railway ..." by George Huddlestone Appendix A, pages 278-279]
- ↑ Wikipedia "Alexander Meadows Rendel"; Retrieved 5 Jun 2016
- ↑ "Symphony of Progress: The Saga of Eastern Railway 1854-2003" published by the Eastern Railway, Kolkata 2003, page 7 and 11
- ↑ Institution of Mechanical Engineers "Obituary Robert Webb Pearce May 1890", page 292
- ↑ "Graces Guide - William St. John Galwey”; Retrieved on 5 Jun 2016
- ↑ "Grace's Guide - Frederick Smith Stanton”; Retrieved on 5 Jun 2016