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'Alexander Izat' added to 'Personnel Records' and minor text and layout changes
The BG line was worked by the [[East Indian Railway]](EIR) and taken over by the Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]]) in 1925.
+Note:'''Umballa''' ''is used in this text as it was the name of the Railway Company.''<blockquote>'''Amballa''' ''and'' '''Ambala''' ''are also recorded in different documents as various spellings .''</blockquote>
<blockquote>'''Amballa''' ''and'' '''Ambala''' ''are also recorded in different documents as various spellings .'' ''None of these three place names appear in the [[Gazetteers#Imperial_Gazetteer_of_India|The Imperial Gazetteer of India]] 1908 which is normally taken to be the definitive source''</blockquote>
==Records==
*'''L/AG/46/29 ''' “Records of the India Office relating to the Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway; 1889-1926”
==PersonnelRecords==The 1905 Civil List records There are no Personnel Records held in the IOR There are limited references in other documents:-*[[Alexander Izat]] joined the Board of the Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway(DKR) Company in 1902, and also the [[Kalka-Simla Railway]] Company. This in addition to being a Director of the [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]](R&KR) from 1883. He retired from India in 1904 <ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Alexander_Izat Grace's Guide "Alexander Izat"]; Retrieved on 7 Jul 2016</ref>.*[[Robert Atwell Way]], Executive Engineer from the [[Public Works Department]] - [[:Category:State Railways|State Railways]] as 'on loan to the Delhi-Amballa-Kalka Company in 1889 ' <ref> [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA642 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 642 (pdf page 605 )] Retrieved on 28 May 18 Jul 2016</ref>; this is confirmed by the 1890 Civil List <ref> “India Civil List” 1890, page 41</ref>.
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