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East Indian Railway Personnel - a sub-section of East Indian Railway(EIR) page.
Personnel
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; Agent 1857-73.
- Bradford Leslie, Sir; Agent 1876-87.
- D W Campbell; Agent 1887-91.
- Richard Gardiner Lt.Col R.E.; Agent 1891-99.
- James Douglas; Agent 1899-1907.
- William A Dring Sir; Agent 1907-12.
- Robert S Highet, Sir; Agent 1912-18.
- J A Marshall; Agent 1918-19
- Geo Colvin, Sir; Agent 1921-33
- Hugh Hannay, Sir; Agent 1933-34
- J A Bell; Agent 1935-39
- George Turnbull; 1851-63. Chief Engineer - First 541 miles of EIR track; Soan Bridge; Howrah Station [3].
- J Hodgson; c.1851-57. EIR Locomotive Superintendent [4].
- Alexander Meadows Rendel; 1855-87. Consulting Engineer to the EIR - Naini Bridge; Lansdowne Bridge; Jubilee Bridge [5]
- Robert Webb Pearce; 1855-1900. Carriage and Wagon Superintendent EIR Carriage and Wagon Workshop [6]
- 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[7].
- Samuel Power; 1861-1869. General Assistant to the EIR Chief Engineer George Turnbull on construction of Soan Bridge and whole line; 1863 EIR Chief Engineer [8].
- Cecil Stephenson; 1873-75. Agent EIR [9].
- 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.[10].
- D W Campbell; 1887-91. Agent EIR [9].
- Richard Gardiner Lt.Col R.E.; 1891-99. Agent EIR [9].
References
- ↑ “Symphony of Progress - The Saga of the Eastern Railway 1854-2003”; published by Eastern Railway, 2003; page 114
- ↑ Archive.org "History of the East Indian Railway ..." by George Huddlestone Appendix A, pages 278-279
- ↑ Wikipedia "George Turnbull"; Retrieved on 5 Jun 2016
- ↑ "Symphony of Progress: The Saga of Eastern Railway 1854-2003" published by the Eastern Railway, Kolkata 2003, page 7 and 11
- ↑ Wikipedia "Alexander Meadows Rendel"; Retrieved 5 Jun 2016
- ↑ Institution of Mechanical Engineers "Obituary Robert Webb Pearce May 1890", page 292
- ↑ "Graces Guide - William St. John Galwey”; Retrieved on 5 Jun 2016
- ↑ Institution of Civil Engineers Proceedings Volume 33 Issue 1872, 1872, pp. 240-241 ; Retrieved 5 Jun 2016
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedAgent - ↑ "Grace's Guide - Frederick Smith Stanton”; Retrieved on 5 Jun 2016