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*[[Guaranteed Railways]] included thpse railway companies, formed by 1859, to which the East India Company, later the GoI, guaranteed a fixed return on capital.
*Few [[Un-guaranteed Railways]] were ever formed few in munber (only two were formed in the period 1850-1866 and both these 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) oethose that it occasionally built directly. 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.
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, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1F9QtYSSa0gC&printsec=frontcover ''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].
