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The following is not included in the index Z/L/AG/46.
*'''L/AG/46/10/35''' “Lists of staff, 1879-1881”
==Personnel==
*[[Bradford Leslie]] was an English civil engineer who specialised in bridges and was a pupil of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Brunel was a consulting engineer to the [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) and Leslie was sent to India as engineer in charge of bridges and viaducts. He supervised the building of the Eschamutter and Koormar river bridges before returning to Britain in 1861 to design bridges for railway lines in South Wales. He soon returned to India as Chief Engineer of the EBR until 1876.
* [[Franklin Prestage]] was Agent for the EBR in the early 1870's. In its original contract of EBR with the Secretary of State for India, this [[Guaranteed Railways|Guaranteed Railway]] company was to open up a rail-line to [[Darjeeling]]. However the [[Government of India]] took a decision to stop expansion of rail-lines by Guaranteed companies in new areas and instead decided to construct and manage rail-lines as [[:Category:State Railways|State Railways]]. [[Northern Bengal State Railway]] (NBR) was formed as a State Railway for construction of rail-lines from the northern bank of Ganges river at Sara and built a metre gauge line to Siliguri. NBR had no plans to take the rail-line to Darjeeling as the mountain railway was considered a formidable sphere. Where EBR and NBR failed as corporate organisations, Prestage succeeded as an individual entrepreneur, he resigned from EBR and set up the [[Darjeeling Steam Tramway]] Co. .
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