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==Historical books online==*[http://books.google.com/books?id=H2cBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Scinde railway, and its relations to the Euphrates valley, and other routes to IndiaFootnote''] by W P Andrews, Chairman of the Scinde Railway Company 1856 Google Books*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ASFcAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Report The spelling of proceedings of an extraordinary general meeting of the Scinde , Punjaub & Delhi Railway Company, held on Friday the 24th July, 1857''] Google Books*Brunton, John, ''Description of the Line is variable. Scinde and Works of Punjaub are the Scinde Railway''. 1863. Available spellings adopted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=1WsEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 Full View Google Books] or [http://www.panhwar.com/rarebooks/Description%20of%20the%20Line%20and%20%20Works%20of%20the%20Scinde%20Railway.pdf pdf] from Panhwar.com ==External links==*[http://web.archive.org/web/20130122163146/http://pakistaniat.com/2009/09/17/karachi-to-kotri-thelegislation -storysee "Government Statute Law Repeals 2012" pages 134-of135, paragraphs 3.78-first-railways-in-pakistan/ 3.83''Karachi to Kotri: The First Railways in Pakistan'']. 17/09/2009. All things Pakistan, now an archived website*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki<ref name=name/History_of_rail_transport_in_Pakistan History of Rail Transport in Pakistan] wikipedia >
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'''Scinde Railway'''
''Note''
*''Some documents and references refer to the ‘Sind Railway’ which is not the correct spelling.'
*''Not to be confused with the ‘Sind Light Railway’ which is a separate narrow gauge railway.''
==History==
The '''Scinde Railway''' Company was first established by deed of settlement in March 1855 and incorporated by the ‘Scinde Railway Act’ of Parliament in July 1855. The company contracted with the Government of India ([[Government of India |GoI]]) to construct a line between [[Karachi]] and [[Kotri]]. The company was granted a 5% return on investment up to a maximum of £1 million in order to build the 120-mile line.
<ref name=name> [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228649/8330.pdf H.M. Government “Statute Law Repeals: Nineteenth Report : Draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill; April 2012"; pages 134-135, paragraphs 3.78-3.83] Retrieved on 2 January 2016</ref>
<ref>"Money Market and City Intelligence", ''"The Times''", Wednesday, 15 June 1859, #23333, 7a.</ref>
The '''[[Karachi-Kotri (Indus River) Railway]]''' work commenced in April 1858 and on 13 May 1861 succeeded in connecting Karachi to Kotri. This was the first railway line for public traffic between Karachi City and Kotri, a distance of 108 miles (174 km).
The company was involved in a number of additional railway line projects, as well as the establishment of the [[Indus Flotilla]] Company on the river Indus. The ‘Scinde Railway Act' of 1857 <ref name=name/> granted it the opportunity to extend its operations.
In 1870, the Scinde Railway Company was amalgamated with the [[Punjab Railway]] and [[Delhi Railway]] Companies and renamed as the '''[[SindScinde, Punjaub & Delhi Railway|Scinde, Punjab Punjaub and Delhi Railway]]''' Company. This was covered by the ‘Scinde Railway Company's Amalgamation Act‘ of 1869<ref name=name/> In 1885 The Scinde Railway, the [[Indus Flotilla]], the [[Punjab Railway]] and the [[Delhi Railway]], working as a single company, were amalgamated to create the [[Scinde, Punjaub & Delhi Railway]] and the company was purchased by the Secretary of State for India. ''See Footnote''
In 1886, the contracts expired and responsibility for the railway was transferred entirely to the Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]]). The GoI merged the [[Scinde, Punjaub & Delhi Railway]] with other smaller state-owned railways to create the [[North Western Railway]]
==Records==
*Z/E/4/25/I53; “Indus River, Railway line to be constructed from Karachi to a point on.”; 1854-55
* Z/E/4/25/R766; “Rivers, Indus, Railway line to be constructed from Karachi to a point on.”; 1854-55
* L/AG/46/17/1-13; “1. Scinde Railway Company”; 1855-1878
==Historical books online==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=H2cBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 "The Scinde railway, and its relations to the Euphrates valley, and other routes to India"] by W P Andrews, Chairman of the Scinde Railway Company 1856 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ASFcAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover "Report of proceedings of an extraordinary general meeting of the Scinde Railway Company, held on Friday the 24th July, 1857"] Google Books
*Brunton, John, "Description of the Line and Works of the Scinde Railway". 1863. Available in [http://books.google.com/books?id=1WsEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 Full View Google Books] or [http://www.panhwar.com/rarebooks/Description%20of%20the%20Line%20and%20%20Works%20of%20the%20Scinde%20Railway.pdf pdf] from Panhwar.com
==External links==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20130122163146/http://pakistaniat.com/2009/09/17/karachi-to-kotri-the-story-of-first-railways-in-pakistan/ "Karachi to Kotri: The First Railways in Pakistan"]. 17/09/2009. All things Pakistan, now an archived website
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Pakistan "History of Rail Transport in Pakistan"] wikipedia
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