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'''Jamshedpur Golmuri Tinplate Works Railway'''
The Tinplate Works at Golmuri, [[Jamshedpur]] was established in 1920 as 'The Tinplate Company of India Limited' with [[Burmah Oil Company, Railways|Burmah Oil Company]] as the major shareholder. The works opened in 1922 and had a production capacity of 28,000 tonnes of tin plate per annum from a Hot Dip plant <ref name =darvill>“Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compliled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entry JH30 page 175</ref>.
The records show that a number of broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) locomotives served the works <ref name =darvill/>. The extent of the BG track within the works is unknown but there was a connection to the [[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]] 'Calcutta Extension Section'. It is known that an internal railway linked this works to the [[Jamshedpur Steel Works Railway|Tata Steels's Jamshedpur Steel Works]]
