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'''Indian Railway Conference Association'''
==History==
The ‘Railway Conference’ was first established in 1879. The periodic meetings of the Conference brought senior railway officials together to formulate policies and procedures that would enhance inter-line cooperation and coordination <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=TPB5RTODBJAC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=related:DzaXcOnJFUllxM:scholar.google.com/&ots=6f9_4eOOAC&sig=c8uUUmZ_hq54k9zTZH1kyt8sAjs#v=onepage&q=Conference&f=false Google Books "India's Railway History: A Research Handbook" by John Hurd II, Ian J. Kerr, page 15]; Retrieved 26 Jun 19 Jul 2016</ref>. This by developing rules and regulations for booking of traffic and interchange of trains between railways; also to act as a consultative Committee and as a Board of Arbitration <ref name= IRCA>[http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/IRCA/index.jsp Indian Railways "Indian Railway Conference Association"]; Retrieved 26 Jun 19 Jul 2016</ref>.
The 'Indian Railway Conference Association' (IRCA) came into existence in the year 1902. At that time railway network in India consisted of 19 privately owned separate railways systems covering a total of 8,475 miles (13,640 km). Each company had formulated its own rules and regulations regarding charging, booking and carriage of Passengers and Goods. Due to multiplicity of rules the user was very much inconvenienced. IRCA was formed to overcome the difficulties in regard to different rules and regulations and to frame rules regarding movement of wagons of one railway system over the other.<ref name= IRCA/>.
Subsequently the Committees for prescribing common standards for wagon maintenance and Classification were formed and by 1926 it was decided to have permanent Committees and Technical sections covering all spheres of Railway working under IRCA <ref name= IRCA/>, consisting of the following:-
*Mechanical Engineering Committee.
*Electrical Engineers Committee
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'''1898 Conference, Simla''' British Library IOR Shelfmark Photo 1082/13(1)<ref>[https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoEnqFull.asp?PrintID=123270 British Library IOR Shelfmark Photo 1082/13(1) "Photo 1082/13(1) Group portrait of delegates, identified as follows on mount"]; Retrieved 26 Jun 2016</ref> :- Photo "1082/13(1) Group portrait of delegates, identified as follows on mount":-
*Back row: Col. Henry Brackenbury(GoI), Mr [[Alfred Brereton]], Mr Walker, Col.[[Richard Gardiner]](EIR), Mr Rutherford, Mr [[Francis Langford O'Callaghan]](GoI-PWD), Mr Partridge, Mr Jacob, Mr [[James Condor]](RMR), Mr Moss, Mr Wright.
*Front row: Mr Goodfellow, Mr [[Alexander Izat]](R&KR), Mr Neville, Mr Barnett, Col. R.A. Sergeaunt(GoI) , Mr [[Henry Parsall Burt]](NWR - GoI), Mr Pendlbury(NGSR?), Mr [[David Logan]](SIR);
[[File:Indian Railway Conference Association 1911 Sept.JPG|thumb|Indian Railway Conference Association 1911 Sept]]
'''1911 September, Conference - 'Railway Board Meeting' ''' Photograph courtesey Mike Muirhead June 2016 :-
*4th row (standing on step): 5 delegates - ''names to be identified''
'''1925 Conference, Simla''' British Library IOR Mss Eur F196/153 "Contains photograph of Conference Delegates" <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=IAMS040-002322744&indx=1&recIds=IAMS040-002322744&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&frbg=&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BL%29&tab=local&dstmp=1468921510523&srt=rank&mode=Basic&&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=Mss%20Eur%20F196%2F153&vid=IAMS_VU2 British Library IOR Mss Eur F196/153 "Speeches and proceedings of the Indian Railway Conference Association meeting at Simla over which Lloyd Jones presided; with photograph of conference delegates, 1925"]; Retrieved 26 Jun 19 Jul 2016</ref>.
British Library IOR Mss Eur F196/153 "Speeches and proceedings of the Indian Railway Conference Association meeting at Simla over which Lloyd Jones presided; with photograph of conference delegates, 1925" - ''not assessed, pending research.''
'''1925 Conference, Lahore - 'Locomotive Superintendents Conference' ''' Photograph taken in cold weather of 1892 at Conference of held in Lahore<ref>[http://www.steamindex.com/locomag/lcwr31.htm#133p The Locomotive Magazine and Railway Carriage and Wagon Review "Indian locomotive superintendents of the nineties", Volume 31, Number 393, 15 May 1925, page 133+ plate]; Retrieved 19 Jul 2016</ref>:-
<Blockquote>C.E.Cardew(BR), A.Pilkington(MR), M.Hughes,Wolly-Dodd(IRCA Secretary), [[Richard Pearce]](EIR Carriage Superintendent), R.L.Trevithick(GIPR), E.S.Luard(BB&CIR), S.N.Gutersloh(RMR Locomotive Superintendent), A.S.Jameson(EBR), R. Wylie(BGJPR), C.T.Sandiford(NWR Locomotive Superintendent), [[William Richard Sumption Jones]](RMR Carriage Superintendent), [[Alan Wood Rendell]](EIR Locomotive Superintendent) and C.E.Crighton(SIR)</Blockquote>
'''1937 Conference''' British Library IOR Shelfmark 1082/13(8) <ref>British Library IOR Shelfmark [https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoEnqFull.asp?PrintID=123277 India Office Records “Indian Railway Conference Association, 1937. Photo 1082/13(8) ]; Retrieved 19 Jul 2016</ref> :- Photo "1082/13(8) Group portrait of delegates, identified as follows on mount": -
*5th row: H.J. Crane(SIR), C.A. Crawford(EIR), P. Govindaraja Pillai(SIR), G.H.A. Wood(JSR), M. Robertson(EIR), F.R. Hawkes(NWR), T. Stephenson(M&SMR), R.G. Manson(ABR), P.R. Leigh-Bennett(BNR), E.M. Cory(GIPR).
*4th row: G. St G. Higginson(BNR), T.K. Soundararaja Ayyangar(SIR), T. Christian(IRCA), Khan Saheb M.A. Rashid(GBSR), Major G.F. Evans (JSR), J. Fearfield (BSR), W.T. Aldous (BB&CIR), P. Hales-Coleman (B&NWR);
[[File:Indian Railway Conference Association 1938 Sept.JPG|thumb|Indian Railway Conference Association 1938 Sept]]
'''1938 Conference''' Photograph courtesey Mike Muirhead June 2016:-
*4th row standing: A W Watts(NSR), R H Nailer(NSR), T Christian(IRCA), H G Rawlins(JSR), P Ramsay-Brown(BkSR), J F C Reynolds(SIR), H J Allinson(EBR), P Govindaraja Pillai(SIR), H J Crane(SIR), P Hales-Coleman(B&NWR), G S Pelly(BNR)
*3rd row standing: C F White(GIPR), A C Austin(BNR), W H H Young(EIR), G W N Rose(JSR), B Moody(NWR), R de K Maynard(M&SMR), S R Phansey(DhSR), Y K Ramachandra Rau(MSR), R S Girharlal(J&DR), D Mehta(J&DR), R S Vipan(ABR), H G Carpenter(M&SMR), F T Castells(BNR), R D Harrison(BB&CIR), G D Laurie(B&NWR and R&KR)
*1st row sitting: L W van Someren(EBR), E W Slaughter Maj.(NSR), G E Cuffe(ABR), C G W Cordon(M&SMR), J D Westwood(B&NWR), [[Charles Alexander Muirhead]](SIR), A F Harvey(IRCA President), C F Carson(NWR), J A Bell(EIR), A Duncan(BNR), G C Laughton(BB&CIR), J H F Rapper(GIPR), A J Dyer(R&KR)
'''1939 Conference - Engineering Section''' IOR Shelfmark 1082/13(9) <ref>British Library IOR Shelfmark [https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoShowDescs.asp?CollID=2828 India Office Records “Indian Railway Conference Association - Engineering Section, 1939. Photo 1082/13(9)]; Retrieved 19 Jul 2016</ref> Photo "1082/13(9) Group portrait of delegates, identified as follows on mount": -
*2nd row, standing: Rai Bahadur Ram Kishan (GBSR), J.N. Nanda (NGSR), J.R. Izat (B&NWR and Kumaon and Railways), F.J. Salberg (ABR), C. Middleton (SIR), F.J.C. Hanson (M&SMR), B. Lawrence (General Secretary, IRCA), M.R. Pandya (J&DR)
*1st row, seated: R.W. Taylor (EBR), E.R. Casement (EIR), L.G.W. Hill (BNR), E.E.V. Temperley (JSR, Chairman), E.M. Cory (GIPR), E.B.N. Taylor (NWR), L.A. Hill (BB&CIR)
