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THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OF INDIA 177
The total includes so~ small sUms not indicated,
in the three categories.
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The fifteen first class railway companies of British
India and the Indian states are enumerated belo¥( in
the chronological order of their commencement of tr~c
-operations :
Date
Name
1853 Great Indian Peninsula Railway
1854 East Indian Railway .
J 856 Madras Railway (later known as Madras
and . Southern Mahratta Railway)
] 860 South Indian Railway
"] 860 Bombay, Baroda and Central India.
Railway
J 861 Sindh, Punjab and Delhi Railway (later
known as Nort}:t. Western Railway)
J 862 Eastern Bengal Railway
] 867 Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway
1874 Nizam" s Guaranteed Railway
J 875 Bengal and North-western Railway
:1877 Burma Railways
] 880 Bengal Nagpur Railway
1882 Jodhpur State Railway
,1884 Rohilkhand and Kumaon Railway
:1895 Assam Bengal Railway:
In the order of their route-mileage importance
these fifteen first class railways have changed their relative'
position from time to tifne. In 1925 the E.I.R. waf!
-amalgamated with the O.R.R. and a considerable slice
-of the E.I.R. (namely the Naini-Jubbulpore section) was
transferred to the G.I.P.R. The amount of capital at