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*For details of individual railways, tramways, railway constructions known to have operated in British India - click '''[[:Category:Railways|Railways index, 1845-1947]]'''
*For information on notable railway people who made signicant significant contributions in the development of the Railways in British India - click '''[[:Category:Railway_People|Railway People]]'''
*[[: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.
*[[:Category:State Railways|State Railways]] were those either built and run directly by the GOI, or those where the GOI exercised its right to assume ownership (which it did gradually with all the original guaranteed railways from 1879 until 1907), or those whose promoters chose to surrender the workings to the GOI (and, in the cse case of the guaranteed companies, received their capital back). From 1907, the word ''State'' was usually dropped from the name of railways in GOI ownership.
*[[:Category:Assisted Railways|Assisted Railways]] were those whose construction was assisted by the GOI, either by guaranteed return or subsidy or in some other material way.
