Category:Railways
The early railway companies were UK companies operating in India. Later the British Government of India (GoI) owned the majority and either managed them directly or leased them back to private management. From circa 1925 most railways were both managed and owned by the GoI. The railways in India were subject to constant changes of ownership, amalgamations and adjustments over the years.
- Guaranteed Railways included thpse railway companies, formed by 1859, to which the East India Company, later the GoI, guaranteed a fixed return on capital.
- Only two Un-guaranteed Railways were ever formed and both were re-constituted by 1870.
- State Railways were those where the GoI exercised its right to assume ownership (which it did gradually from 1860 until 1907). From 1907, the word State was usually dropped from the name of railways owned by the GoI . In 1944, all the State Railways were nationalised.
- Railways of the Indian Princely States were integrated into the newly formed Indian Railways after Independence in 1947.
Records
It is important to bear in mind that railway staff records created in India before 1947 remain in India, as do the records of railways built, owned or operated by the Indian Princely States. The records that survive today in the collections held at the British Library do so because they were originally created in the UK.
Recommended Reading
Hyde Clarke, Colonization, Defence, and Railways in our Indian Empire (London: John Weale, 1857).
J.N. Westwood, Railways of India (Newton Abbot: David & Charles Ltd, 1974) [out of print; a general history of the railways of India from pre 1840 to the 1970s.]
Ian J Kerr, Building the Railways of the Raj 1850-1900 (Delhi; Oxford: OUP, 1995) [out of print; a detailed, academic examination with full bibliography.]
Ian J Kerr, Engines of Change : the Railroads that made India (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2007).
External Links
The Imperial Gazetteer of India : New edition . . . in Council (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908-1931 [v. 1, 1909])
Indian Railways, "Evolution of Indian Railways - Historical Background," Indian Railway Administration and Finance
Subcategories
This category has the following 35 subcategories, out of 35 total.
A
- Assisted Railways (29 P)
B
- Bangladesh Railways (1 P)
C
- Coalfield/Colliery Railways (45 P)
D
- District Railway Boards (19 P)
E
F
- Foreign Railways (21 P)
G
- Guaranteed Railways (17 P)
I
- Indian Railways (14 P)
- Indian States Railways (168 P)
- Industrial Railways (356 P)
M
- Managing Agencies (53 P)
- Monorail (32 P)
N
- Narrow Gauge (NG) Railways (252 P)
P
- Pakistan Railways (2 P)
- Port Railways (19 P)
- Portable Railways (17 P)
- Private Railways (105 P)
R
- Railway Administration (10 P)
- Railway Constructions (123 P, 3 F)
- Railway Equipment Agents (8 P)
- Railway maps (286 F)
- Railway People (260 P)
- Railway Personnel Lists (8 P)
- Railway Regiments (19 P)
- Railway Surveys (46 P)
- Railway System Abbreviations (empty)
S
- State Railways (407 P)
T
- Train Ferries (7 P)
- Tramroads, Riverbed Crossings (11 P)
- Tramways (264 P)
Pages in category "Railways"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,752 total.
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- M&SMR Railway Workshops
- Macgregor & Company (Burma) Monorail
- Madari Hat Branch Railway
- Madaya Light Railway
- Madras (North-East) Railway
- Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway
- Madras Bezwada Railway
- Madras Electric Tramway Co Ltd
- Madras Port Trust Railways
- Madras Railway
- Madras Railway - Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Workshops
- Madras Railway Bridges and Constructions
- Madras Railway – Lines owned and worked
- Madras Railways & Stations
- Madras Tramway Proposals
- Madras Tramways
- Madras-Bombay Railway Proposal 1836
- Madras-Dhanushkodi Mainline
- Madras-Jalapet SW Mainline
- Madras-Tuticorin Mainline
- Madras-Walajapet Railway Proposal 1837
- Madras-Waltair NE Mainline
- Madura-Bodinayakanur Railway
- Madura-Manamadura Section
- Madura-Pamban Railway
- Magra-Tarakeswar Light Railway
- Mahahare Railway Bridge
- Mahalaxmi Railway Workshop
- Mahanadi Canal Construction Tramway
- Maharajganj Branch
- Mahewar & Roorkee Railway
- Mahim Chord, NE line
- Mahuva Dock Estate Railway
- Mailongdisa Trestle Viaduct
- Mailsi Canal & Islam Headworks Construction Railway
- Makerwal Colliery Light Railway
- Makum Branch Railway
- Maladevi Dam and Tank Construction Tramway
- Malakand Tunnel Construction Tramway
- Malegaon, near Baramati Sugar Factory Railway
- Malviya Bridge
- Malwa Section BB&CIR Main Line
- Malwa Section Main Line
- Manamadura-Sivaganga Railway
- Mandalay Municipality Conservancy Tramway
- Mandalay Tramway, Burma
- Mandalay-Madaya Light Railway
- Mandi Sadiqganj Railway
- Mandra Bhaun Railway
- Mandya Sugar Factory Railway
- Mangalore Jetty Railway
- Maniara Tank Construction Railway
- Manihari Branch Railway
- Manikpur Branch
- Manjhi Railway Bridge
- Marala Sleeper Works Railway
- Marauda Sugar Refinery
- Mari Branch Line
- Mari Indus Railway
- Mari-Attock Railway
- Mariani Branch Railway
- Martin & Company
- Martin's Light Railways
- Marwar Frontier Line JBR
- Marwar Junction Extension Line JBR
- Masharak-Thawe Extension Railway
- Mashrak Branch
- Masor Road-Jambusar Railway
- Masulipatam and Hyderabad Light Railway
- Matheran Hill Light Railway
- Matheran Tramway
- Mathura-Hathras Provincial Railway
- Mavli-Nathdwara Branch Railway
- Mayangyoung Quarries Railway, Burma
- Mayavaram -Arantangi Railway
- Mayavaram Mutupet Railway
- Mayavaram-Tranquebar Railway
- Mayo Salt Mine Railway
- Mayurbhanj Railway
- McLeod Ganj Railway
- McLeod's Light Railways
- McLeodganj Railway
- Meerrut Municipality Water Supply Tramway
- Meghna Bridge
- Mehsana-Vadnager Railway
- Merta City Branch Line JBR
- Mesopotamia Military Railway 1915-19
- Mesopotamia Railway
- Messrs. Lee, Watson and Ayton, Construction Contractors
- Messrs. Wythes and Jackson, Construction Contractors
- Metelli Branch Railway
- Mettupalaiyam Branch Line
- Mettur Dam Construction
- Mewar State Railway
- Mhyjee (Maheji) Monorail
- Mianwall-Mari-Attock Railway
- Midnapore-Jherriah Coalfield Railway Survey
- Military Railway Committee
- Mirpur Khas-Jhudo Railway
- Mirpur Khas-Khadro Railway
- Mirza Chowki Branch Line EIR
- Mirzapore and Delhi Railway Company
- Mirzapur Ghat Extension
- Mithapur Chemical Works Railway
- Miyagram-Sinor Branch Railway
- Miyaram Karjan-Malsar Railway
- Moghal Sarai-Howrah Railway Survey
- Moghalpura Railway Workshop
- Moghalsarai-Gaya Line
- Mohari-Barauli Railway
- Mohpani Branch, NE line
- Mohpani Coalfield Tramway
- Mokameh Ghat Branch Line EIR
- Monghyr Branch Line EIR
- Monghyr Railway Workshop
- Monghyr Tunnel
- Monorail Portable Railway Co
- Monorail Portable Railway Company
- Monorail Systems in India
- Mopad Anicut Tramway
- Morappur-Dharmapuri Railway
- Morappur-Dharmapuri-Hosur Railway
- Morappur-Hosur Railway
- More Railway Bridge
- Morhur Bridge Construction Tramway
- Morvi Railway
- Morvi Tramway
- Moth Quarry Branch
- Motibagh Workshop, Nagpur
- Motipur Sugar Factory Railway
- Motipura-Taukhala Railway
- Moulmein-Ye Railway
- Mourbhanj Railway
- Mu Valley State Railway
- Mughalpura Railway Workshop
- Mughalsarai-Gaya Railway
- Muktapur, Rameshwar Jute Mills Railway
- Mulshi Dam Railway
- Multan Railway Workshop
- Munger Railway Workshop
- Murshibad-Nulhati Tramway
- Murshidabad Branch Railway
- Murtajapur-Ellichpur Railway
- Murtajapur-Yavatmal Railway
- Murtazapur-Ellichpur Railway
- Murtazapur-Yeotmal Railway
- Mushkaf-Bolan Railway
- Mussoorie Railway Connection Proposals
- Muttra Achnera Provincial State Railway
- Muttra Bridge
- Muttra Bridge of Boats, Jumna River
- Muttra Hathras Provincial Railway
- Mymensingh-Bhairab Bazar Railway
- Mymensingh-Jamalpur-Jagannath Railway
- Mysore Iron Works Light Railway
- Mysore State Railway
- Mysore State Tramways
- Mysore-Arsikere Railway
- Mysore-Bangalore Railway
- Mysore-Nanjangud Railway
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- Nadiad-Kapadvanj Railway
- Nagavali Canal Construction Tramway
- Nagbhir-Nagpur Branch Railway
- Nagda-Mathura(Muttra) Railway
- Nagda-Muttra State Railway
- Nagda-Ujjain Railway
- Naginimara Branch Railway
- Naginimora Branch Railway
- Nagore Branch Line
- Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway
- Nagpur City Electric Tramway Proposal
- Nagpur District Manganese Mines Railways
- Nagpur Tramway Proposal 1863
- Nagpur-Chhindwara Railway
- Nagpur-Rajnandgaon Railway
- Naihati Branch Line EIR
- Naihati, Gourepore Co Ltd Jute Mill Railway
- Naini Bridge
- Nainpur-Mandla Fort Railway
- Nalagarh Sandstone Quarry Railways
- Nalhati State Railway
- Nalhati-Azimganj Railway
- Nandhaur Valley Tramway
- Nanjangud Bridge
- Nanjangud-Chamrajnagar Railway
- Napier Mole Tramway/Railway, Karachi Harbour
- Nar-Nadiad Loop Railway
- Nar-Petlad-Nadiad Railway
- Narayanganj-Dacca-Mymensingh State Railway
- Narpura Quarry Siding
- Narwana-Kaithal Railway
- Nasik Tramways
- Navanagar State Railway
- Navsari-Kamrej Light Railway
- Nawabganj Sugar Factory Railway
- Nebudda Coalfield Railway
Media in category "Railways"
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