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Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845An on-1947” - available from the [http://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0004-research-sources-for-indian-railways-1845-1947/ Fibis shop]. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records line search of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]] An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway
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==Records==
<ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 British Library “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 22 Jan 2016</ref> gives 136 references. The most important being:-
*'''L /AG/46/12 ''' “Records of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company; 1845-1926”
*'''L/AG/46/12A ''' “Records of the Great Indian Peninsula Extension Railway Company; 1863-1869”
==Personnel==The following employment records [[India Office Records]] (IOR) are relevant :-*'''L/AG/46/12/86''' : GIPR Lists of appointments (officers 1849-1885; workmen 1852-1880)*'''L/AG/46/12/88''' : GIPR Contracts of employment (officers 1886-1925; workmen 1881-1925)*'''Z/L/AG/46''' : Index to UK Appointments to Indian Railways (1849-1925)*'''Mss Eur D1184/14''' : Letters to Arthur A West from G L Clowser Nov 1860-Nov The following specific records refer to GIPR personnel:-*[[David Francis Hogarth]], 1865-68, Assistant Engineer with GIPR <ref name=ice>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/imotp.1903.18185 Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers"] Retrieved on 18 May 2016</ref>.
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