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'EIR Collieries and Coal Supplies' section added
*By 1900 the new [[EIR Carriage and Wagon Workshop]] at [[Lillooah]] (3Km up line from Howrah) was established.
*On 15 January 1934, the [[EIR Locomotive Workshops|Jamalpur Locomotive Workshops]], along with the entire railway colony, were destroyed by an earthquake. It took 3 years to rebuild the facility.
==EIR Collieries and Coal Supplies==
''See separate pages''
* ‘[[Giridih District EIR Colliery Railways|EIR owned Collieries in Giridih District]]’ comprising:-
** ‘Kurhurbaree Colliery’
** ‘Seramphore Colliery’
* ‘[[ Central Indian Coalfields Railway]]’ , was owned by the Government of India until 1926 when absorbed into the EIR System, in addition to the above it served the following State Collieries:-
** ‘[[South Karanpura Coalfield]]’
** ‘[[North Karanpura Coalfield]]’
** ‘[[Bhurkunda Colliery]]’
** ‘[[Bokaro_Ramgarh_Coalfields_Railways#The_Coalfields|Bokaro Coalfield]]’
** ‘[[Bokaro_Ramgarh_Coalfields_Railways#The_Coalfields|Ramgarh Coalfield]]’
** ‘[[Kargali Colliery]]’
== Organisation ==
