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The town was the meeting point in 1871 for the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] (616 miles from [[Bombay]]) and the [[East Indian Railway]] (220 miles from [[Allahabad]]), and the completion of the first Bombay-Calcutta trunk railway line.
It had large Railway Workshops, employed a large number of people to work the railway and was an important Railway Colony.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20120220013610/http://www.pricewebhome.co.uk/Docs/Price/Railways/Railways.htm "Railway Colonies in India"] by John Alton Price, now an archived page.</ref>
There was a cantonment at Jubbulpore.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/394/mode/2up Jubbulpore] page 395 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
*[http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=74905153 ''Annual reports on the working of the lock hospitals in the Central Provinces''] [ID: 75107675]] Reports cover 1876-1889. National Library of Scotland .Contains reports from Jubblepore eg page 28 (file page 37) [http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=75109520&mode=transcription "Report On The Lock Hospital, Jubbulpore, 1876"].
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