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designation altered in 1901 (what to?)
*'''1879''' raised on 14th June as '''Bengal and North Western Railway Volunteer Rifles'''<ref name="IAL">''Indian Army List'' 1st Sept 1901</ref>
*'''1892''' amalgamated with the [[Tirhoot State Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps]] on 17th June (GGO 573, dated 17th June 1893)<ref name="IAL" />
*'''1901''' designation altered (GOCC No. 327, dated 29th April 1901)<ref name="IAL" />
*'''1917''' 1st April became '''22nd Bengal and North Western Railway Battalion'''<ref name="Jack" />
*'''1920''' redesignated Bengal and North Western Railway Battalion on 1st October<ref name="Jack">Jackson, Major Donovan ''India's Army'' (1940)</ref>
