Lillooah
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Lillooah
Current spelling Liluah
Lillooah was situated on the East Indian Railway about 3 miles from Howrah, Calcutta. It was the site of the workshops of the EIR Carriage and Wagons Department with its department headquarter offices and there was a railway colony.[1]
The railway colony - The E.I.R. authorities considered it necessary to provide a small township adjacent to the workshop for the benefit of staff and management. The well designed township consisted of a few spacious bungalows for officers and some staff quarters. Some of the streets in the colony still bear the names of prominent railway men [2].
The following roads on the Railway Colony at Lillooah, (now named Liluah on modern maps), have been identified [3]:-
- Gardiner Road = Richard Gardiner Lieut-Col R.E. - Agent for EIR 1891-1899
- Strachey Road = Richard Strachey Lt-Gen Sir - Chairman EIR 1889-1907
- Pearce Road = Robert Webb Pearce - Carriage and Wagon Superintendent for the EIR Carriage and Wagon Workshop founded at Howrah in 1855 until his death in 1889; then succeeded by his brother Richard Pearce until 1898. The transfer of the C&W Workshop to Lillooah commenced in 1900.
- Jenyns Road (Jennings Road in some records) – not identified relating to any prominent railway person.
External links
- Liluah Workshop Irfca.org
- The Lillooah Railway Strike 1928 Railways of the Raj
- This India List post mentions Japanese air raids during the World War 2, at Lillooah and Calcutta.
References
- ↑ "The East Indian Railway", page 358 from Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: their history, people, commerce and industrial resources by Somerset Playne and J W Bond 1917 Archive.org]; Retrieved 4 Jul 2017
- ↑ IRFCA "Liluah Workshop"; Retrieved 4 Jul 2017
- ↑ “Google Maps Search”; Retrieved 4 Jul 2017
