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*[[Guaranteed Railways]] included thpse railway companies, formed by 1859, to which the East India Company, later the GoI, guaranteed a fixed return on capital.
*Only two Few [[Un-guaranteed Railways]] were ever formed (only two in the period 1850-1866 and both were re-constituted by 1870).
*[[State Railways]] were those where the GoI exercised its right to assume ownership (which it did gradually from 1860 until 1907)oethose that it occasionally built directly. From 1907, the word ''State'' was usually dropped from the name of railways owned by the GoI . In 1944, all the State Railways were nationalised.
*[[Railways of the Indian Princely States]] were integrated into the newly formed [[Indian Railways]] after Independence in 1947.
[http://www.irfca.org/index.html The Indian Railways Fan Club]
[http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r144.html Mike's Railway History] "Modern transport in India"
