Brassey & Co

Brassey & Co, Railway Contractors were a subsidiary of ‘Thomas Brassey & Co’ of Canada Works, Birkenhead, England with Thomas Brassey as Chairman

Railway Projects in India

• East Bengal Railway(EBR). In 1858 Mr Brassey, in partnership with Mr Wythes and Sir Joseph Paxman, undertook the construction of the EBR a line of 112 miles(179km) from Calcutta to Kooshtea(Kushtia) on the River Ganges. The line opened in stages from Calcutta in 1862 and completed through to Kushtia in 1864. The section from Calcutta via Ranaghat, Pradah Junction to Jagati Junction eventually becoming the ‘EBR Broad Gauge Mainline’ and from Jagati Junction the ‘EBR Kushtia Loop’

• Delhi Railway. In c.1864 ‘Brassey & Co,’ in partnership with Mr Wythes and Mr C.Henfrey, were contracted by the Scinde Railway Company to construct the line from Amritsar(Umritsir) to Ghaziabad (Ghazeeabad), 305 miles(490km). Mr G.P.Bidder was the consulting engineer in England and Mr Joseph Harrison the chief engineer resident in India. Construction of this (Broad Gauge) line commenced early 1865 and line opened in stages from 1868-70.The railway merged to become ‘Scinde, Punjaub & Delhi Railway’ in 1870, from 1886 to become part of the ‘North Western Railway'NWR BG Mainline’ from Karachi to Delhi]].