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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- Giridih District EIR Colliery Railways
- Goa, Banastarim Bridge Construction Tramway
- Goa, Mormugoa Harbour Construction Railway
- Goalpara Forest Tramway
- Goalundo Branch Railway
- Goalundo-Narayanganj Extension Railway Survey
- Gobia Ghat Tramway
- Godagari Ghat Branch Railway
- Godavari Dam Construction Railway
- Godavari Old Bridge
- Godavari River Monsoon Navigation Tramways
- Godhra Branch Line
- Godhra-Baroda Chord Railway
- Godhra-Lunavada Railway
- Godhra-Ratlam-Nagda Railway
- Godhra-Rutlam Railway
- Godhra-Rutlam-Nagda Railway Section
- Golden Rock -Sircarpalayam Tramway
- Golden Rock Railway Workshop
- Golden Rock- Sircarpalayam Tramway
- Golpur Colliery Light Railway
- Golra-Basal Section Line
- Gomti River Tramway
- Gondal Railway
- Gondal State Railway
- Gondal Town Tramway
- Gondal-Ghogha Port Railway Proposals, 1863-69
- Gondal-Porbandar Railway
- Gondia-Chanda Extension Railway
- Gondia-Chanda Railway
- Gondia-Nainpur-Chhindwara-Jabalpur Railway
- Goolburga - Hyderabad Railway
- Gorai River Railway Bridge
- Gorakhapur Forestry Tramway
- Gorakhpur Railway Workshop
- Gorakhpur-Gonda Branch
- Gordon & Co. Railway Ticket Manufactory Calcutta
- Gorumahisani Iron Mine Railway
- Grand Chord EIR Line
- Great Indian Peninsula Railway
- Great Indian Peninsula Railway - Lines owned and worked
- Great Indian Peninsula Railway Bridges and Constructions
- Great Indian Peninsula Railway Personnel
- Great Northern and Eastern Railway Company
- Great Southern of India Railway
- Great Trunk Railway from Calcutta
- Great Western Bengal Railway Company
- Great Western of India Railway Survey
- Guaranteed Railways
- Guide Ways (India) Ltd Monorail
- Gujarat Railway Company
- Gunduck Bridge
- Guntakal-Mysore Frontier Railway
- Guntur District Board
- Guntur-Repalle Railway
- Gurhwal Iron Mine Tramway Proposal
- Gurumaishini-Sini Railway Project
- Guzerat Railway Company
- Gwalior - Dholpur Mainline Section
- Gwalior Electric Tramway
- Gwalior Light Railway
- Gya-Patna Road Tramway, 1854
H
- Hajiganj-Shatnal Railway Survey
- Hansara Tea Tramway System
- Hanumangarh-Sadupur Line JBR/BSR
- Harda Railway Workshop
- Hardinge Bridge
- Hardwar-Dehra Railway
- Hardwar-Rajpur-Mussoorie Railway Proposal
- Hathras Branch Line EIR
- Hathua Sugar Factory Railway
- Havelian Branch Line
- Havelock Bridge
- Hazinage, Hukumchand Jute Mills Ltd. Railway
- Helsa-Chandil Railway
- Hindubagh-Fort Sandeman Railway Project
- Hindupur (Yesvantpur-Mysore Frontier) Railway
- Hindupur-Yesvantpur Railway
- Hingoli Branch Railway
- Hisar Extension Line JBR/BSR
- Holkar & Sindia-Neemuch State Railways
- Holkar State Railway
- Holkar-Narmada Bridge
- Hooghly River Bridge
- Hooghly-Katwa Railway
- Hoshiarpur Branch Line
- Hoshiarpur Doab Railway
- Hospet-Kottur Railway
- Howrah Floating Bridge and Howrah Bridge
- Howrah Iron Works
- Howrah Mills Co Ltd Railway
- Howrah Municipality Conservancy Tramway
- Howrah Railway Station
- Howrah Railway Workshops
- Howrah Tramways (Light Railways)
- Howrah-Amta Light Railway
- Howrah-Amta Tramway
- Howrah-Burdwan Chord Railway
- Howrah-Delhi EIR Main Line
- Howrah-Sheakhalla Light Railway
- Hubli Railway Workshop
- Hullohur Railway Bridge
- Humdi Ghat Tramway (Branch Railway)
- Hyderabad Main Line
- Hyderabad State Railway
- Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railway
- Hyderabad-Umarkot Railway
I
- Ichamati River Railway Bridge
- Igatpuri Railway Workshop
- Ikrah Branch Line EIR
- Inchcape Bridge
- Indian General Navigation and Railway Company
- Indian Iron and Steel Company
- Indian Midland Railway
- Indian Railway Classification
- Indian Railway Conference Association
- Indian Railways Feeder Lines Company
- Indian Standard Wagon Co Ltd
- Indian Tramway Co.
- Indo-Burma Railway Connection Project
- Indore State Railway
- Indore to Khundwa Railway
- Indore-Khundwa Railway
- Indus Flotilla
- Indus Rail Bridge
- Indus Valley State Railway
- Indus Valley State Railway - Survey and Construction
- Integrated Transport System Proposal 1836
- Irrawaddy Flotilla Company Railways
- Irrawaddy Valley State Railway
- Itarsi-Nagpur Railway
- Itsari Water Supply Project Monorail
- Itsari-Nagpur Branch, NE line’
- Itwari Bazar Scheme Line BNR
- Izat Bridge
J
- Jacobabad-Kashmore Railway
- Jagadhri Light Railway
- Jagannathganj Ghat Branch Railway
- Jaijon Extension Railway
- Jainti Branch Railway
- Jaipur City Refuse Disposal Tramway
- Jaipur State Railway
- Jaipur-Sawai Madhopu Railway
- Jaipur-Shaikhawati Railway
- Jajmau near Cawnpore, Ganges River Crossing
- Jakhal-Hissar Branch Line
- Jalagon-Amainer Branch, NE line
- Jalagon-Bhusaval Mainline Section
- Jalarpet-Mangalore Mainline
- Jallo Turpentine & Resin Distillery Tramway
- Jamalpur Locomotive Workshop
- Jamalpur Tunnel
- Jambusar-Kavi Railway
- Jammu and Kashmir Railway
- Jammu-Sialkot Railway
- Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway
- Jamnagar State Railway
- Jamner Pachora Light Railway
- Jamrud-Dakka-Jalabad Portable Railway
- Jamshedpur Golmuri Tinplate Works Railway
- Jamshedpur Steel Works Railway
- Jamuna Bridge
- Jamuniatand Link Line EIR
- Janakpur (Nepal)-Jaynagar(India) Railway
- Janakpur Railway
- Jankampet-Bodhan Railway
- Janupur Branch
- Japaha Sugar Factory Railway
- Japla Cement Works Tramway and Ropeway
- Jarangdih Colliery
- Jarwa Branch
- Jayanagar-Janakpur-Bijalpura Railway
- Jaynagar-Janakpur Railway
- JBR Railway Workshops
- Jech Doab Branch Line
- Jessop & Co.
- Jessore-Jhenidah Railway
- Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway
- Jhagadia-Netrang Railway
- Jhansi - Gwalior Mainline Section
- Jhansi Railway Workshop
- Jhansi-Bina Bhopal Railway
- Jhansi-Gwalior and Katni Railway
- Jhansi-Konch-Kalpi Railway
- Jhansi-Manikpore State Railway
- Jharia Branch Line EIR
- Jharia Coalfield BNR Railways
- Jharia Coalfield EIR Railways
- Jharia Coalfield Railways
- Jhelum Bridge
- Jind City Branch Line
- Jind-Panipat Railway
- Jodhpur City Municipality Conservancy Tramway
- Jodhpur Railway
- Jodhpur Railway Workshops
- Jodhpur State Railway
- Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway
- Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway
- Jogbani Branch Railway
- John Fleming & Co
Media in category "Railways"
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Kistna Viaduct GIPR c.1871.png 479 × 343; 205 KB
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