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<ref>[http://odysseuslahori.blogspot.com/2013/03/alas-sindh-is-now-lost-indus-valley.html "Alas, Sindh is now Lost: Indus Valley State Railway" by Salman Rashid March 29, 2013]; Retrieved 11 Dec 2015</ref>
<ref>[http://www.panhwar.com/Adobe/Administration%20report%20on%20the%20construction%20of%20the%20railway.pdf Administration report on the construction of the (Indus State) Railway, pdf format]; Retrieved 11 Dec 2015</ref>.
The [[Empress Bridge]] over the Sutlej River Bridge opened in 1878.
The Indus Valley State Railway had reached [[Sukkur]] in 1879 and the steam ferry that transported eight wagons at a time across the Indus between [[Rohri]] and [[Sukkur]] was found to be cumbersome and time-consuming. The opening of the [[Lansdowne Bridge]] in 1889 solved this bottleneck and thus port of [[Karachi]] was connected to the railway network.
==Personnel Records==
Unfortunately, there are no Indus Valley State Railway Staff agreements held at the [[British Library]] in the [[India Office Records]]. The following for [[Middleton Rayne]] is in the (IOR:- *Mss Eur D904; "Middleton Rayne papers" with the catalogue contents 'Papers of Middleton Rayne (1830-82), Public Works Dept, Government of India 1868-79, Engineer in Chief, Indus Valley State Railway 1876-79, comprising diaries, sketchbooks, letters and photographs; also two diaries, dated 1871 and 1883, of his wife Annie.'
*[[Middleton Rayne]], 1876-79 Engineer-in-chief
**IOR Mss Eur D904; "Middleton Rayne papers" with the catalogue contents 'Papers of Middleton Rayne (1830-82), Public Works Dept, Government of India 1868-79, Engineer in Chief, Indus Valley State Railway 1876-79, comprising diaries, sketchbooks, letters and photographs; also two diaries, dated 1871 and 1883, of his wife Annie.'
*[[Frederick Lewis Dibblee]], 1874-78 Superintending Engineer.
*[[Hugh Lewin Monk]], 1869 as an Assistant Engineer. Then 1874-79 as Executive Engineer with responsibility of construction of the [[Empress Bridge]] over the River Sutlej
*[[Henry Francis Storey]], 1879 as Engineer. 1881 as Engineer-in-Chief and promoted to Superintendent of Way and Works until trasferred in 1886
== Further Information==
See '''[[North Western Railway]]'''
