Catalogue description Records of the India Office relating to the Eastern Bengal Railway Company

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Details of IOR/L/AG/46/30
Reference: IOR/L/AG/46/30
Title: Records of the India Office relating to the Eastern Bengal Railway Company
Date: 1885 - 1920
Related material:

1) Home and Overseas Correspondence of the E.B.R. 1856-1879 [L/PWD/2/52-63, 66, 156-163]

 

2) Agreements of the E.B.R. with the Secretary of State for India 1858-1879 and with the Bengal Central Railway Company 1883 [L/AG/46/4/13]

 

3) Records of the E.B.R. 1885-1920 [L/AG/46/10]
Held by: British Library: Asian and African Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 4 volumes
Access conditions:

No restrictions
Administrative / biographical background:

One of the original guaranteed railway companies. Formed in 1857 and incorporated by Act of Parliament in the same year. First portion of the line ran from Calcutta to the Ganges at Kushtia and Damukdia and was opened in 1862. In 1870 the E.B.R. took over the running of the Calcutta and South Eastern Railway (see L/AG/46/8). By 1883 its eastern terminus was at Goalundo in Faridpur District. In 1884 when its contract with Government terminated the E.B.R. amalgamated with the Northern Bengal State Railway to form the Eastern Bengal State Railway.

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