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 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,752 total.
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- Ranaghat-Murshidabad Branch Railway
- Ranchi Plateau Coalfield Railway Survey
- Ranchi Plateau Railway Survey
- Rangoon & Irrawaeddy Valley Railway
- Rangoon and Irrawaddy Valley State Railway
- Rangoon Development Trust Railway
- Rangoon Earth railway
- Rangoon Municipality Conservation Railway
- Rangoon Port Commissioner's Railway
- Rangoon Town Reclamation Light Railways
- Rangoon Tramway, Burma
- Rangoon Water & Sewerage Department Railway
- Rangoon, Pazundaung Creek Timber Depot Tramway
- Ranigani & Sripur Equitable Coal Co. Railways
- Raniganj Coalfield Railways
- Raniganj Pottery Works Railway
- Raniganj, Samla Collieries Ltd
- Ranipet Branch Line
- Ranjewan Colliery Tramway
- Rasul to Puran Railway
- Ratlam-Nagda Railway
- Ravalgaon Sugar Farm Railway
- Ravi Bridge
- Rayauram Branch Line
- Red Hill Railroad
- Reond Khud Bridge
- Rewari-Bhatinda-Fazilka Railway
- Rewari-Ferozepore Railway
- Rewari-Kuchaman Chord Railway
- Rewari-Phalera Chord Railway
- Rewari-Phulera Chord
- Rivers Steam Navigation Ltd
- RMSR Ajmer Workshops
- Robert Hudson Ltd
- Rohilcund Tramway
- Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway
- Rohtas Factory Complex Railway
- Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway
- Rowsara-Kharia Light Railway
- Rungpur Dhub Railway Survey
- Rupar-Nalagarh Provincial State Railway
- Rutlam Neemuch Nusserbad Railway
- Ryam Sugar Factory Railway
S
- Sabarmati Thermal Power Station Railway
- Sagara-Talaguppe Railway
- Sagauli-Raxaul Railway
- Saharanpur Railway Workshop
- Sahibganj Loop EIR Line
- Saidpur Railway Workshop
- Saikhoa Extension Railway
- Sakri Sugar Factory Railway
- Sakri-Jainager Branch Railway
- Sakrigali Branch Line EIR
- Salanpur Branch Line EIR
- Salem and Cuddalore Light Railway
- Salem-Metur-Dam Railway
- Salem-Vriddhachalam Railway
- Salkhia Salt Depot Tramway
- Salsette Trombay Railway
- Samalkot Junction-Cocanada Branch Line
- Samasatta-Bhatinda Mainline
- Samastipur Railway Workshop
- Samastipur-Rowsara Light Railway
- Sambhar Lake Salt Branch Line
- Sambhar Salt Extraction Tramway
- Samni-Dahej Railway
- Sanderao Extension Line JBR
- Sangli State Railway
- Santahar-Kaunia Loop Railway
- Santahar-Siliguri Railway
- Santipur-Krishnager Light Railway
- Santipur-Nabadwip Light Railway
- Saoner-Khapa Branch Line BNR
- Sara Ghat Bridge
- Sara Train Ferry
- Sara-Sirajgonj Railway
- Saran-Captainganj Branch
- Sarda Canal Construction Railway
- Sarda Gorge Tramway
- Sardarshahr Extension Line JBR/BSR
- Sasaram Quarry Tramway
- Satara Sugar Factory Railway
- Satpura Railway
- Saurashtra Railway
- Sawang Colliery
- Sayla-Wadhwan Tramway
- Scinde Railway
- Scinde Railway Company
- Scinde, Punjaub & Delhi Railway
- Scindia State Railway
- Scindia-Neemuch Railway
- Scindia-Nimach State Railway
- Secunderabad-Dronachellam Railway
- Secunderabad-Gadwal Railway
- Sedashegar Pier Construction Tramway
- Segowlie-Raxaul Railway
- Seramphore Colliery
- Shadipalli-Balotra Railway
- Shahdara-Narowal Railway
- Shahdara-Saharanpur Light Railway
- Shahdara-Sangla Branch Line
- Shahganj Branch
- Shahjahanpur-Mailani Tramway
- Shakarnager Sugar Factory Railway
- Shakuntala Railway
- Shambasar (Shyambazar) Branch
- Shanan Hydro Electric Construction Transportation
- Sharigh Colliery
- Shaw, Wallace & Co
- Sheoraphuli-Tarakeshwar Railway
- Shibpur, Fort William Jute Mill Railway
- Shikohabad-Farukhabad Branch Line EIR
- Shillong, Assam Forest Department Railway
- Shimoga Tramway
- Shimoga-Anandapuram Railway
- Shimogar-Talaguppa Railway
- Shiroli-Haliyal, Kanara District, Tramway Proposal
- Shivrajpur Light Railway
- Shoranur-Cochin Railway
- Shoranur-Nilambur Railway
- Shorekot Road-Chichoki Railway
- Shyamnager, Presidency Jute Mills Co. Railway
- Sialkot-Jammu Railway
- Sialkot-Narowal Railway
- Sibi-Bostan Loop Line
- Siddapuram Project Railway
- Sidhnai Wier Bridge Construction Tramway
- Sikhanwala Quarry Railway
- Silapur Branch
- Silchar Branch Railway
- Silghat-Nowgong Tramway
- Silver Jubilee Bridge, BB&CIR
- Simla Hydroelectric Scheme Construction Monorail
- Simlipal Forest, Mayurbhanj District,Tramway
- Sind Light Railway Co Ltd
- Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway
- Sind-Pishin State Railway
- Sind-Sagar Railway
- Sindia State Railway
- Sindia-Neemuch Railway
- Sindia-Neemuch State Railway
- Singareni Coal Fields Railway
- Singareni Collieries Light Railway
- Singhjani Branch Railway
- Singri Ghat-Panchnoi River Tramway
- SIR Central Workshops, Golden Rock, Trichinopoly
- SIR Railway Workshops
- Sirhind - Morinda Monorail
- Sirhind Canal Construction Tramway/Railway
- Sirhind-Rupar Railway
- Sirmuttra Extension Railway
- Sittang Valley State Railway
- Skelton System Monorail
- Soane Bridge
- Sohan Bridge Construction Tramway
- Solani River Aquaduct Construction Railway
- Son River Bridge near Arrah
- Sone Canal Construction Railway/Tramway
- Sone Causeway Construction Railway
- Sonepur-Burhwal Mainline
- Sonpur Railway Workshop
- South Behar Railway
- South Central Railway
- South Eastern Railway
- South Indian Railway
- South Indian Railway - Lines Owned and Worked
- South Indian Railway Personnel
- South Karanpura Coalfield
- Southern Mahratta Railway
- Southern Punjab Railway
- Southern Railway
- Southern Shan States Railway
- St Thomas Mount Tramway Proposal 1836
- Stanley Reservoir and Mettur Dam Construction Railways
- State Railways
- Strachey Road/Railway Bridge
- Suchetgarh-Jammu Railway
- Sukkur Bandar Branch Line
- Sukkur Bridge
- Sukkur-Dadur Railway
- Sultangunge Ghat Branch Line EIR
- Suramangalam-Salem Railway
- Surat-Amalner Railway
- Surat-Bombay Railway
- Surendranagar-Bhavnagar Railway
- Sutlej Bridge
- Sutlej Bridge Construction Tramway
- Sutlej Bridge South Bank Tramway
- Sutlej River Conservancy Division
- Sutlej River Training Works Railway, 1915-16
- Sutlej Valley Project Railways
- Sutlej Valley Railway
- Sutlej Viaduct
- Sylhet Branch Railway
- Sylhet District tramways
- System Abbreviations
Media in category "Railways"
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Kistna Viaduct GIPR c.1871.png 479 × 343; 205 KB
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