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*There are at least two records at [[The National Archives|the National Archives]]==FIBIS resources==''See separate pages for more information'':-**FIBIS Gallery Album [http://discoverywww.nationalarchivesgallery.govfibis.ukorg/SearchUIindex.php?/Details?uri=C8946012 RAIL 1156category/17 Railways/20NWR/36H V O WATERS Collection] Victor Hope Boalth: Chief Commercial Manager, North Western Railway He served as a travelling Inspector of India. Birth: 12 September 1872Coaching and Goods Accounts, Sumbolpore, India. Railway service: 1895NWR 1907-19271917. Includes a **[http://discoverywww.nationalarchivesgallery.govfibis.ukorg/SearchUIpicture.php?/Details?uri=C8947016 RAIL 1156521/26category/4017 map] Frank Montagu George Wheeler: Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer, North Western Railway, Indiaof the railway network. Birth: 22 July 1907To enlarge, Londonclick on the icon at the top left hand corner of the map. Railway service: 1931-1949
→North Western Railway - Lines operated and worked: internal links changed
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|company8details= [[Southern Punjab Railway]]
|company9=]|company9details= [[Kalka-Simla Railway]]]
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|headquarters= [[Lahore]]
|workshop= [[Lahore|Lohore(Moghalpura)]], [[Karachi]], [[Multan]], [[Saharanpur]]<br>''see also'' [[NWR Railway Workshops]]
|stations= [[Amritsar]], [[Ferozepore]], [[Hyderabad]], [[Meerut]], [[Multan]], [[Peshawar]], [[Quetta]], [[Rawalpindi]], [[Saharanpur]], [[Sibi]]
|system1date= 1947
|auxillary forces= [[North-Western Railway Battalion]]
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[[File: North-Western Railway Map 1909, south-west section.png|thumb| North-Western Railway Map 1909, south-west section]]
[[File: North-Western Railway Map 1909, north-east section.png|thumb| North-Western Railway Map 1909, north-east section]]
The '''North-Western State Railway''' (NWR) was formed in January 1886 from the merger of the [[Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway]], the [[Indus Valley State Railway]], the [[Punjab Northern State Railway]], the eastern section of the [[Sind-Sagar Railway]] and the southern section of the [[Sind-Pishin State Railway]].
<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 106]; Retrieved 20 Dec 2015</ref>
== History ==The military and strategic concerns of Afghan-Indian border were such that [[Francis Langford O'Callaghan]], was posted from the [[State Railways]] as "engineer-in-chief for a number of demanding railway projects, surveys and constructions on the north-west frontier" <ref name=biog>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.457 Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland - O'Callaghan, Francis Langford "]; Retrieved on 9 Jul 2016</ref>. These were initially military and strategic projects and became part of the NWR network on formation in 1886. The [[Bolan Pass Railway Construction]] was completed in 1886. The [[Khwaja Amran Railway Survey]] in 1887 included the [[Khojak Tunnel]] and the [[Chaman Extension Railway]]<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V21_020.gif "The Imperial Gazetteer of India" v. 21, p. 14.]; Retrieved on 13 Jul 2016</ref>. The [[Khojak Tunnel]] opened in 1891 and the railway reached [[Chaman]] on the Afghan border.
Later renamed the [[North Western Railway]], by 1905 it was the longest railway under one administration and the strategic railway of the north-west frontier. In 1947, one part became the nucleus of [[Pakistan Railways|Pakistan's railways]], with 4976 of the old system's 6861 miles lying within the new state; the part lying in India was reorganised and renamed as [[Eastern Punjab Railway]].
==North Western Railway - Lines operated and worked==
[[North_Western_Railway_-_Lines_operated_and_worked|''See seperate page for full details'' '''NWR - Lines operated and worked''']]
<br>Comprising:-
*[[North_Western_Railway_-_Lines_operated_and_worked#NWR_Commercial_Section_BG|'''NWR Commercial Section''']]
*[[North_Western_Railway_-_Lines_operated_and_worked#NWR_Military.2FStrategic_Section|'''NWR Frontier (Military) Section''']]
*[[North_Western_Railway_-_Lines_operated_and_worked#NWR_Narrow_Gauge_System|'''NWR Narrow Gauge System''']]
*[[North_Western_Railway_-_Lines_operated_and_worked#NWR_System_.E2.80.93_BG_Lines_Worked_as_part_of_the_NWR_System|'''NWR System – BG Lines Worked as part of the NWR System''']]
==NWR Coal Supplies==
From an early daate the NWR estabished their own collieries to supply coal for their operations.''See separate pages for more information'':-
*[[Khost Colliery Tramway|Khost Colliery ]] - owned and worked by NWR, opened in 1877 and closed on unknown date.
*[[Dandot Light Railway|Dandot Colliery]] - owned and worked by NWR, opened in 1894 and closed 1911.
*[[Sharigh Colliery]] - owned and worked by NWR, opened in 1894 and closed on unknown date.
*[[Bhaganwala Colliery Railway|Bhaganwala Colliery]] - owned and worked by NWR, opened in 1894 and closed 1899.
==NWR Sleeper Supplies==
''See separate pages for further information''
*[[Changa Manga Forest Tramway|Changa Manga Forest Operation]]. By 1884 the NWR found itself starved of sleepers that were vital in running services on its network. This operation had been established in 1864 and started supply of sleepers in 1884
*[[Marala Sleeper Works Railway|Marala Sleeper Works]], opened 1917, closed and transferred 1922-23
*[[Dhilwan Sleeper Works Railway|Dhilwan Sleeper Works]], opened 1923
== Records NWR Quarries==*There are no staff agreements held at the [[British LibraryPaikhel Quarry Railway|Paikhel Quarry Railway]] , owned by NWR, in the [[India Office Records]].use 1939-42
==Also seeRecords==An on-line search of the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) records held at the [[British Library]] relating to this railway <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 30 May 2016</ref>gives several entries, the most relevant as follows: - *L/AG/46/34; “Records of the India Office relating to the North Western State Railway”; 1893-1924 *L/F/8/18/1419; “North Western Railway, Book of contracts relating to lines worked by the NorthWestern Railway Office of the Chief Examiner of Accounts”; date unspecified ==Personnel==There are no staff agreements for NWR personnel held at the [[British Library]] in the [[India Office Records]]. '''[[North Western Railway Personnel]]''' gives details of NWR staff from several sources:-*“India Civil List 1890” <ref>Fibis Records, scans of original ” </ref> and the " India List and India Office List, 1905" <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PR14 " India List and India Office List, 1905"] Retrieved on 30 May 2016</ref> for [[Public Works Department]] Railway Branch or [[:Category:State Railways|State Railways]] personnel deployed to NWR gives a number of entries. The most notable of these have been listed. *"Grace's Guide ” for notable personnel <ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page “Grace’s Guide”]; Retrieved 30 May 2016</ref>*"National Archives from the RAIL collection” <ref>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C241 “National Archives” ”]; Retrieved 30 May 2016</ref> ==Associated Auxiliary Force==
*[[North-Western Railway Battalion]]. Includes mention of armoured trains
== Institutions ==
*[[Schools#F|North Western Railway School]], Fairlawn, [[Mussoorie]].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170519215908/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/54984118 Picture of the teachers and students of St. Andrew School, Pakistan Railways (then NWR) at Lahore, set up in the late 19th century] panoramio.com, now archived.
== Recommended reading ==
*Berridge, Percy Stuart Attwood. ''Couplings to the Khyber: the story of the North Western Railway''. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969.
Monthly staff magazine. Some editorial content published in Urdu . No BL holdings. 2 copies (November 1942, December 1945) are held in the Berridge Papers, [[University of Cambridge - Centre of South Asian Studies|Cambridge South Asian Archive]].
== External Links links==
*Terry Case, [http://members.tripod.com/shankardubai/nwrhome.htm ''North Western Railway''].Includes a section about [http://shankardubai.tripod.com/halwaters.htm Hal Waters] (refer photograph album above)
*[http://www.nr.indianrail.gov.in/scripts/static/history.aspx "History of Northern Railway"], ''Northern Railway''.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20130127073836/http://pakistaniat.com/2010/03/01/journeys-to-remember-quetta-lahore-by-rail-in-1925/ Quetta to Lahore by Rail 1925] ''All Things Pakistan'', now an archived website
*[http://www.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories/read-contributions/life-back-then/350-breakup-of-the-north-western-railway-and-the-anglo-indian-community "Breakup of the North Western Railway and the Anglo-Indian community"] by Kenneth Hugh Staynor. indiaofthepast.org*[https://web.archive.org/web/20161118040346/http://www.panoramio.com/user/4789607/tags/British%20Steam%20Locomotives Images of British Steam Locomotives used by North Western Railways] Ghilzai:panoramio.com (part of , now archived. *[httphttps://wwwweb.panoramioarchive.comorg/web/user20170520190736/4789607?comment_page=1&photo_page=1 this] collection)*[http://www.panoramio.com/photo/55027511 An old photograph of a Railway Inspection trolley with removeable sailboard used on NWR Hyderabad-Kotri, Sindh, Pakistan]. Ghilzai:panoramio.com (part of [http://www, now archived.panoramio.com/user/4789607?comment_page=1&photo_page=1 this] collection)
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/northampton_museum/5044010710/in/set-72157625077918924 Photograph of Troops travelling by train] taken by Private J W Linley of the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment compiled whilst serving in India 1923-1938. flickr.com/photos/northampton_museum
===Historical books online===
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== References ==<references />
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]]
[[Category:Pakistan Railways]]
