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**Adamson and Clowser "carried on the work with the greatest zeal and ability. "Labour management could limit construction progress, but “by their good and liberal management (Adamson and Clowser) collected and kept on the work a force of 25,000 men during two seasons, and in 1861 of more than 42,000 men” <ref name=Thana/>.
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhor_Ghat "Bhor Ghat"] Wikipedia
*[https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-03022-C-E/93 Photograph: "The Reversing Station, Bhore Ghat Railway Incline"] c 1872. "View looking along the track towards the reversing station on the Bhore Ghat Incline on the Bombay Poona line...In the print, the line at the right ascends from Karjat. The train then proceeds to the sidings in the background and continues the ascent by reversing up the middle track. The track on the left is a catch siding for descending trains; this safety measure did not however prevent 14 deaths in January 1869, after a brake failure caused the Poona to Bombay mail train to crash over the edge. In the left background can be seen the rocky outcrop known as the Duke's Nose." Image 93, "Photographs of India (Y3022C-E)" a collection of photographs by Samuel Bourne, Bourne and Shepherd, and Charles Shepherd. Royal Commonwealth Society Collection, University of Cambridge. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk
*Two photographs, "View of the Bhore Ghats near Khandalla", c 1910-1915 [http://purl.umn.edu/64336 View 1], [http://purl.umn.edu/64337 View 2]. University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
===Historical books online===
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100036301297.0x000001#ark:/81055/vdc_100036301307.0x000008 ''Paper on the Bhore Ghaut Incline of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Read at the Bombay Mechanics' Institution in the Town Hall, Bombay, on Monday, December 21, 1857. With an appendix by A.A. West.''] by James J. Berkley (James John), published 1863. British Library ItemVIEWER. May be slow to loadDigital.
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