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== References ==
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*'''L/F/8/1-20''' "Appointments to State Railways made in the UK 1855-1946"
*'''Z/L/F/8/1-2''' Index to Appointments to State Railways made in the UK 1855-1946"
==Personnel==
The 1905 Civil List records the following deployment from the [[Public Works Department]] - [[:Category:State Railways|State Railways]]:-
*[[Boswell Parkinson Milsom]], Executive Enginner, '1893-96, on loan to the Assam-Bengal Railway Company <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA560 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 560 (pdf page 523] Retrieved on 29 May 2016</ref>.
==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/romanticeastburm00delmrich The Assam-Bengal railway: 'The Romantic East: Burma, Assam, and Kashmir by Walter del Mar (1852 - 1944); Chapter XII, pages 107-8. Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1906.] and reproduced at http://www.irfca.org/docs/history/romantic-east.html
*[http://www.timescrest.com/coverstory/take-this-train-at-your-own-peril-9815 Take this train at your own peril] by Jaideep Mazumdar February 23, 2013 timescrest.com. "The rail route through the Borail Hill Range between Lumding and Badarpur in Assam is considered to be an engineering marvel with 37 tunnels and a series of stunning bridges and viaducts spanning deep gorges and ravines. During the construction of this rail line, which took 11 years (it was completed in 1903) many died of malaria, diarrhoea, other diseases, attacks by wild animals. There were also killer landslides".
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