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The early railway companies were UK companies operating in India. Later the British Government of India (GOI) owned the majority and either managed them directly or leased them back to private management. From circa 1925 the GOI began to call in the leases, operating the services directly. By 1945, most railways were both owned and managed by the GOI.
*[[:Category:Guaranteed Railways|Guaranteed Railways]] included those railway companies, formed by 1859, to which the East India Company, later the GOI, guaranteed a fixed return on capital.
*[[:Category:Private Railways|Private Railways]] (those built without a guarantee) were few in number - only two were formed in the period 1850-1866 and both these were re-constituted by 1870.
== External Links ==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/ ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India : New edition . . . in Council''] Vol 1, 1909 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908-1931).
*Indian Railways, [http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/financecoderailwayboard/ADMIN_FINANCE/AdminFinanceCh1view_section.htm jsp?lang=0&id=0,1 "Evolution of About Indian Railways - Historical Background"] ''Indian Railway Administration and Finance''indianrailways.gov.in
*[http://www.irfca.org/index.html ''The Indian Railways Fan Club''] Train spotters site about Indian Railways.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120204155938/http://www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/industrial/display.php?file=Military.txt&title=Military%20Trains Indian/South-Asian Industrial Locos: Military Trains] by Simon Darvill
*[http://www.railwaysofraj.blogspot.com Railways of the Raj] A lively site featuring titbits from railway life in British India.
*[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC8754A97881FF003 FIBIS List of Railway videos on YouTube]
*[http://www.virginiaessaysinhistory.educom/historyarticles/EIH2011/?p=151 5 ""Fire-Carriages" of the Raj: The Indian Railway and its Rapid Development in British India"] by Amit K. Sharma 2010 ''Essays In History. Annual Journal of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia''
*[http://www.trains-worldexpresses.com/400/410.htm Imperial Indian Mail <nowiki>[</nowiki>and other trains<nowiki>]</nowiki>] trains-worldexpresses.com
*Rootsweb India Message Board [http://boardswww.rootswebindiaofthepast.comorg/contribute-memories/read-contributions/life-back-then/localities341-railway-travel-in-the-raj "Railway Travel in the Raj"] by Kenneth Hugh Staynor.asiaindiaofthepast.indiaorg.general/2717.2/mbThe author travelled by trains in India from the 1930s to 1951.ashx post] about the occupation 'sleeper agent'
==== Historical books online====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=StwDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Railways in India, by an engineer''] 1847 Google Books
