Tags: 1891 time table, Chakradarpur, Howrah, Howrah Charadarpur line inaugatation First train raon on 15th August 1854 from Howrah to Hooghly in 91 minutes.ĮIR successors were Northern Railways – The Allhabad, Lucknow and Moradabad Visions went to Northern Railways and the Eastern Railways got the Howrah, Asansol and Danapur Divisions of the erstwhile EIR and the complete Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR) divisions as well as the Sealdah division from Bengal Assam Railways (BAR).ĭetails of evolution of EIR and BNR can be found hereĪnd my favorite website for all Indian Railways loversĪnd accompanying articles of the inauguration EIR Initially it existed as a private company with Rowland Macdonald Stephenson as the first managing director. My Recent acquisition of a 1891 timetable of the special train carrying the Viceroy for the inauguration of the Howrah Chakradarpur Railway issued by East India Railway on the Bengal Nagpur line.įor those interested in East India Railway company (EIR) – EIR existed between 1845 – 1952. Tags: Indian Railways, Indian Railways nostalgia, Philately, stamps You could find a lot of working DHR steam locomotives all over the world. DHR steam locomotive – the most famous of all the 4 mountain steam locomotives.īclass 0-4-0 steam locomotive. Neral Matheran Steam locomotive – a 0-6-0T steam locomotive. X class locomotive which is operational even today. Nilgiri Railways – steam locomotive 0-8-2T rack and pinion locomotive. Kalki Shimla steam locomotive built by Sharp Stewart and company and started operating on the Kalki Shimla route in 1906.
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