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 those railway companies, formed by 1859, to which the East India Company, later the GoI, guaranteed a fixed return on capital.
- Un-guaranteed Railways were few in munber (only two were formed in the period 1850-1866 and both these were re-constituted by 1870).
- were those where the GoI exercised its right to assume ownership (which it did gradually from 1860 until 1907) oethose that it occasionally built directly. From 1907, the word State was usually dropped from the name of railways owned by the GoI . By late 1944, all the State Railways had been 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) [links to a Google Books preview limited to the first 35 pages].
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
Mike's Railway History "Modern transport in India"
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 152 pages are in this category, out of 1,752 total.
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- Tandula Canal and Reservoir Construction Railway
- Tangi Branch Railway
- Tangla Branch Railway
- Tanjore District Board Railway
- Tank to Dera Ismail Khan Portable Railway
- Tannah Iron Works Monorail
- Tannah Viaduct
- Tansa Lake Construction Railways
- Tantpur Extension Railway
- Taptee (Bhusawal) Viaduct GIPR
- Taptee (Surat) Bridge BB&CIR
- Tapti Valley Railway
- Tarakai Quarry Railway
- Tarakeshwar - Magra Light Railway
- Tarakeshwar Railway
- Tarapur-Cambay State Railway
- Tari Ghat Branch Line EIR
- Tarikere-Narasimharajapura Tramway
- Tarkessur Branch Line EIR
- Tarkessur Railway
- Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company
- Tawa Valley Coalfield Railway
- Tawi Branch Line
- Teesta Bridge
- Teesta-Kurigram Railway
- Tenali-Repalle Railway
- Tepagarh Bauxite Tramway
- Tezpore-Balipara Light Railway
- Tezpur-Balipara Railway
- Thal Ghat Railway Construction
- Thal-Parachinar Railway
- Thanesar-Kaithal Railway
- Tharsa Tramway
- Thaton-Duyinzaik Light Railway
- Thull Ghat Railway Construction
- Tilaknager Sugar Factory Light Railway
- Tilhar-Budaun-Hapur Railway Survey
- Tilkah Tea Monorail, Cacher District
- Tindharia Railway Workshop
- Tinnevelly Branch Line
- Tinnevelly-Quilon Railway
- Tinnevelly-Tiruchendur Railway
- Tirhoot State Railway
- Tirhut Railway
- Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway
- Tirupattur-Krishnagiri Railway
- Tirutturaipundi -Point Calimere Railway
- Titagarh Jute Factory Co Ltd Railway
- Titagarh, Empire Jute Co Railway
- Titagarh, Kelvin Jute Co. Railway
- Toposi Colliery Branch Lines
- Toposi-Barabani Chord EIR
- Toposi-Baraboni Chord Line
- Tounghoo-Mandalay Railway
- Towa Viaduct
- Tramroads, Riverbed Crossings
- Tramways in Mysore State
- Trans Indus (Kalabagh-Bannu) Railway
- Trans Indus (Mari Indus-Kalabagh-Bannu) Railway
- Trans-Baluchistan Railway
- Trans-Persian Railway Proposal
- Travancore Railway
- Trichinopoly Railway Workshop
- Trichinopoly-Pudukkottai Railway
- Trichinopoly-Tuticorin Railway
- Trichinopoly-Villupuram Railway
- Triple Canal Project Construction Railways
- Trivandrum Extension Railway
- Trivellore Light Railway
- Tumsar-Katangi Light Railway
- Tumsar-Tirodi Light Railway
- Tuticorin Branch Line
- Tuticorin Port Railway
U
- Udaipur-Chitor Railway
- Udaipur-Chitorgarh Railway
- Uhl River Hydro Electric Project
- Ujjain Branch Line
- Ujjain-Agar Branch Railway
- Ujjain-Bhopal Railway
- Umaria Coalfield Railway
- Uoch Tramway (Branch Line)
- Upper Bolan Railway
- Upper Chenab Canal
- Upper Ganga Canal Construction
- Upper India Railway
- Upper Jhelum Canal
- Upper Sind Light Railway
- Upper Sone Bridge, Dehri
V
- Vaso-Nadiad Railway
- Vendalur and Trivellore Tramway
- Veraval-Junagadh-Dhoraji Railway Proposal, 1872
- Vicrabad-Bidar Railway
- Victoria Railway Bridge
- Vijapur-Kalol-Kadi Railway
- Vikarabad-Bidar Railway
- Villupuram-Dharmavaram Railway
- Villupuram-Guntakal State Railway
- Villupuram-Katpadi Railway Section
- Villupuram-Nellore Railway
- Villupuram-Tiruvanamalai Railway
- Villupuram-Trichinopoly Railway
- Viramgam-Wadhwan Branch Line
- Virudhunagar-Tenkasi Railway
- Visakhapatnam Port Trust Railway
- Vivekananda Setu Bridge
- Vizagapatam Temporary Tramway
- Vizagapatam-Raipur Railway
- Vriddhachalam-Cuddalore Railway
W
- W E Smith & Co Ltd, Madras, Tramway
- Wadala Kanker Quarry to Wazirabad Railway
- Wadhwan-Morvi State Railway
- Wadhwan-Sayla Tramway
- Wadhwan-Sayla-Dolia Railway Proposal, 1900
- Wadhwan-Sayla-Muli Tramway Proposal
- Wadi Cement Works Railway
- Wadi-Secunderbad Railway
- Walajah Road-Ranipet Railway
- Walchandnagar Sugar Factory Railway
- Waltair-Vizagapatam Branch Line
- Warcha Quarry Branch Line
- Warcha Salt Mines Tramway
- Wardha Coal Railway
- Wardha Valley Railway
- Wardha-Warora Railway
- Waring Brothers
- Wazirabad-Khanewal Branch Line
- Wazirabad-Lyallpur State Railway
- Wazirabad-Multan Railway
- Waziribad to Lyallpur Railway
- West Bokaro Coalfield
- West of India Portuguese Railway
- Western Bengal Railway Survey
- Western Rajputana State Railway
- Willindon Bridge
- Willingdon Reservoir Construction Railway
Y
- Yamuna Bridge (Kalpi)
- Yamuna Bridge (Mathura)
- Yamuna Railway Bridge (Delhi)
- Yamuna Railway Bridge(Agra)
- Yamuna River, Okhla Canal Construction Tramway
- Yamunanager Paper Mill Railway
- Yavatmal Murtijapur Railway
- Yelahaka-Bangarpet Railway
- Yelahaka-Bowringpet Section
- Yesvantpur Dod-Ballapur Railway
- Yesvantpur-Hindupur Railway
- Yesvantpur-Mysore Frontier Railway
Media in category "Railways"
The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total.
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