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==Origins and Background==
The following based on the auto-biography of Charles Folliott Birney, Chairman ‘[[Assam Railways and Trading Company |Assam Railways and Trading Company Limited ]] <ref>[https://ia902905.us.archive.org/12/items/dli.csl.8148/8148.pdf ‘The Story of the Assam Railways and Trading Company Limited’ 1881-1951 by Charles Folliott Birney, Chairman. ‘Dibru-Sadiya Railway’ Chapter III, page 15-25 pdf 24-37]; Retrieved 31 June 2020</ref>.
'''1881''': Robert Piercy and three Italian engineers, the Chevalier brothers , arrived in Calcutta and made their way to Dibrugarh . Benjamin Piercy, who as consulting engineer, remained in England and advised that:-
'''1899:''' A steel bridge which had been under construction since 1896 was opened to traffic. In May.
'''1910''': The ‘[[Saikhoa Branch Extension Railway|‘Saikhoa Extension Railway’]] ’ from [[Talap ]] to the Brahmaputra at Saikhoa Ghat was built in 1909-10 at the Government’s request.
'''1911''': New workshops were being constructed at [[Dibrugarh ]] to replace the old workshops by then nearly 30 years old. The main reason for the change, however, was that the old workshops were cramped for space and inconveniently situated at a point where the river was eroding its bank. The workshops, still in use in 1946 included the Erecting Shop, Boiler Shop and Smithy, Foundry, Machine Shop and Carriage and Wagon Shop.
'''1914-18''':The old 250-feet timber bridge at Doom Doom was replaced during WW1 by the present steel bridge, which was formally opened by the AR&TC Chairman Lord Ribblesdale in 1920.
