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|presidency= [[Bengal (Presidency)|Bengal]]
|image=Jamalpore, Railway Station.jpg
|coordinates= [https://www.google.com/maps/place/25°18'00.0%22N+86°30'00.0%22E/@25.3,86.5,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d25.3!4d86.5?hl=en 25.3°N 86.5°E]
|altitude= 151 m (495 ft)
|presentname= [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamalpur,_Munger Jamalpur]
|stateprovince= [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar Bihar, Bengal] wikipedia
|country= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]
|transport=[[East Indian Railway]]
}}
'''Jamalpur''' was the headquarters of the subdivision of Monghyr District during the British period.<br>
Situated 299 miles from Calcutta, "Jamalpur is the head-quarters of the locomotive department of the [[East Indian Railway]] and contains the largest manufacturing workshops in India". (Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908)
==Spelling variants==
Modern name: Jamalpur, <br>Variants: Jamalpore
==Also seeRelated articles==
*[[East Indian Railway Regiment]]
==Cemeteries==
The [[BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] contains a file relating to Jamalpur , catalogue reference Mss Eur F370/92. There are two cemeteries: I: consecrated 1870; 1870-1904, open; II: consecrated 1928; 1895-1947, open.
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamalpur,_Munger Jamulpur, Munger] Wikipedia including
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamalpur,_Munger#Railway_workshop Railway workshop]
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V14_049.gif Jamalpur]Imperial Gazetteer on Digital South Asia website.
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/onjama~1.html "On Jamalpur - Anglo-Indian Railway Officers"], by Blair Williams ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 6, Number 2, 2001
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120220013610/http://www.pricewebhome.co.uk/Docs/Price/Railways/Railways.htm Railway Colonies in India] by John Alton Price. Includes his time in Jamalpur with the Army in 1942. From his family website, now archived. Some of the photographs from the article are available on flickr.com [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963247/in/photostream/ Railway Siding in Jamalpur], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963139/in/photostream/ Railway line past No 2 sub-depot], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963205/in/photostream/ Forest Camp near Jamalpur, Bihar], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3134780006/in/photostream/ Our Tent in the forest], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963283/in/photostream/ First locomotive on East Indian Railway], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3134784408/in/photostream/ Amunition valley - Jamalpur], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963343/in/photostream/ Sunday walk - hills near Jamalpur]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180319171444/http://www.irfca.org/~mrinal/jamalpur.html Jamalpur Workshops] irfca.org, now an archived page.
*[http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2010/09/jamalpur-railway-workshops-1897-part-1.html Jamalpur Railway Workshops 1897 Part 1] , [http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2010/09/jamalpur-railway-workshops-1897-part-2.html Jamalpur Railway Workshops 1897 Part 2] oldindianphotos.in
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/w/019pho0000015s8u00023000.html Photograph of Workshops <nowiki>[</nowiki>Jamalpur<nowiki>]</nowiki> - East End after the Earthquake of 12th June 1897.] British Library Online Gallery
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3L2yGpa8s&feature=share Video on history and present of Jamalpur workshop Eastern Railway] You TubeYouTube.
*[http://thejamalpur.wordpress.com/category/jamalpur-railway-workshop Jamalpur Railway Workshop] thejamalpur.wordpress.com
*[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Railways-to-modernize-Jamalpur-workshop/articleshow/11829864.cms "Railways to modernize Jamalpur workshop"] by Kumod Verma, February 10, 2012 ''The Times of India'' Patna. Includes history of the workshop.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/dharmasphere/92153350/in/set-1472372/ Photograph of the gravestone] of “Thomas Ouilon Roberts, formerly of the Volcan Foundry, Waddington and after wards Foreman of the Locomotive Erecting Shop, Jamalpur, who lost his life from the effects of an encounter with a tiger, near this place. Died 13th Day June, 1864 Age 27 years” flickr.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170312183059/http://mungerjamalpur.com/2010/06/15/i-do-not-think-of-jamalpur-as-a-city-i-think-of-it-as-a-railway-colony-bungalow-dwellings-and-happy-valley/ "I do not think of Jamalpur as a city..I think of it as a railway colony …bungalow dwellings …and Happy Valley"] by Yvonne Eva Le Fort June 15, 2010 ''MungerJamalpur'', now archived. Railway Colony life c 1943-1947.
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V14_049.gif Jamalpur Town] Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 14, page 43 (1908)*[httphttps://ebooksarchive.adelaideorg/details/in.eduernet.audli.2015.3058/k/kiplingpage/rudyardn267/railwaymode/index.html 2up ''Among the Railway Folk''] by Rudyard Kipling , pages 255-282 ''From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Volume II'' 1938, first published 1888. Web edition published by eBooks@AdelaideJamalpur, East Indian Railway. **Article [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_railwayfolk_intro.htm "Among the Railway Folk"] from Kipling.org.uk {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
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