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Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845An on-1947” - available from the [http://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0004-research-sources-for-indian-railways-1845-1947/ Fibis shop]. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records line search of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]] An on-line search of the IOR records 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 26 Jan 2016</ref>
'Personnel' heading added with text; 'Records' section changed; 'Further Information' added
The line linked the SIR network in India at [[Madurai]] with the Island of [[Pambam]], from where there was a ferry connection to [[Ceylon]].
Also described as the '''Madura-Pamban Railway''' in some records, it was first surveyed by [[Ernest Ifill Shadbolt]] between the years of 1888 and 1893..(see 'Personnel' below)
It involved the construction of the '''Pamban Viaduct''' across the submerged reef lying between the mainland of India and the Island of [[Panbam]](Rameswaram)
==Records==
gives the following: -
*'''L/F/8/16/1095''' “South Indian Railway Company Limited, Contract as to the construction and working of the Pamban Branch and the Travancore Branch; 1901"
==Personnel==
No Staff Lists have been found.
The “Indian Biographical Dictionary” gives [[Ernest Ifill Shadbolt]], [[Public Works Department]], Executive Engineer from 1888 to 1893 as 'Engineer-in-Chief of the Madura-Pamban Railway Survey ''also Bezwada-Madras and Tinnevelly-Quilon Railway Surveys'' ' <ref>[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary.djvu/430 “Indian Biographical Dictionary” 1915 page 390]; Retrieved on 27 May 2016</ref>
== References ==
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==Further Information==
See '''[[South Indian Railway]]'''
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]]
