east coast state railway
robert richard gales, between 1895 - 1900, east coast state railway assistant manager [ 11 ] .
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the state - owned east coast railway paid £225m to the government in the year to march 2014, the last financial year before it is reprivatised .
soam said the railway can shorten the time and cost of shipping from east coast region to ports in china .
jodhpur bikaner rly. split into jodhpur state rly. and bikaner state rly .
east bengal state rly.' s line to siliguri is converted to bg .
the east coast state railway (ecsr) was a guaranteed company formed in 1890 to undertake the construction and working of a railway line on the from bezwada (vijaywada) junction point of southern mahratta railway and to join the nizam' s guaranteed state railway at cuttack. it also provided an interchange with the metre gauge (mg) bellary - kistna state railway at kistna south of the river kistna .
a train on the east coast mainline near doncaster. photograph: christopher thomond for the guardian
an rmt union member protests at kings cross station over the re - privatisation of the east coast railway. photograph: keith wells / demotix / corbis
bnr takes over part of the east coast rly. lines (cuttack - vizianagaram, branch line to puri) .
the railways is keen on reviving the proposal on building a railway line along the east coast from chennai via mamallapuram and puducherry to kanniyakumari and the state government should join hands with it to execute the project and other pending proposals, said union railway minister suresh prabhu here on saturday .
indian railway standards renamed indian government railway standards. locomotive classification codes updated to include diesels and electrics .
this is set to be changed by the 688 - km east coast rail link (ecrl). after longing for years, residents in malaysian state of kelantan, terengganu, pahang on the east coast region can soon see the first train running from the country' s northern border with thailand to malaysia' s busiest port klang on the strait of malacca, connecting the east coast to the more developed region centered on the capital of kuala lumpur .
east coast trains have been rebranded as virgin trains east coast. under the management of a joint venture between stagecoach and sir richard branson’s virgin, an eight - year franchise began with the 7. 55 am service leaving newcastle for london king’s cross on sunday .
kaunia - dharlla mg line of east bengal railway extended to amingaon, where a ferry across the brahmaputra connected to the rail system of the assam bengal railway through guwahati .
an east coast train at london' s king' s cross station. the state - owned firm has paid £1bn to the government over the past five years. photograph: martin keene / pa
ng lines: gitaldaha - jainti (cooch behar state rly .); nawshera - dargai state rly. (later nwr) .
the success of east coast led to calls from unions and labour to keep the line in state hands, especially after the 2012 west coast franchising fiasco meant many scheduled bidding competitions were postponed. however, the coalition ensured its return to the private sector ahead of the election .
three shortlisted groups are contenders to take over east coast, with the award expected late this year: a stagecoach - virgin joint venture; first group; and a joint venture between keolis and eurostar, subsidiaries of france' s state - owned railway company, sncf .
in 1901 the southern section was transferred to the madras railway (mr) in 1901; subsequently renamed madras (north - east) railway; becoming the madras - waltair ne mainline of the madras and southern mahratta railway (m & smr) in 1908 .
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bowringpet - kolar 2' 6
line extended to chintamani / chikkaballapur (forming the kolar district rly .) by the mysore state railway .
diesel railcars from ganz are tried out on the nizam' s state railways .
the answer from the current transport secretary, patrick mcloughlin, launching the privatisation on friday, was that he wanted to see a
revitalised east coast railway, one that both rekindles the spirit of competition for customers on this great route to scotland and competes with the west coast on speed, quality and customer service
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the malaysian government has estimated that ecrl will contribute an additional 1. 5 percent of gross domestic product (gdp) growth annually in the east coast region over the next 50 years .
shoranur - cochin line is built, owned by the state but operated by the sir .
ijm corp, one of malaysia' s leading construction companies, sees the building of ecrl timely with the ongoing expansion of kuantan port on the east coast to be connected to the ecrl .
bnr' s satpura railway complete' s gondia - nainpur - jabalpur link .
two bg diesel shunters from william beardmore in use on the north western railway .
jointly launched by malaysian prime minister najib razak and chinese state councilor wang yong earlier this month, the railway will be built by china communications construction company ltd, a leading transportation infrastructure group that also built a landmark bridge in the country' s northwestern state of penang .
rajputana - malwa rly. taken over by state and made part of bb & ci rly .
patiala state monorail obtains the four famed orenstein and koppel monorail locomotives for some of its lines .
apr. 1: jacobabad - kashmore line taken over by state (now in pakistan) .
mick cash, the acting general secretary of the rmt rail union, said :
reprivatisation of the east coast mainline defies all economic logic and is nothing less than an act of industrial vandalism .
kuala lumpur - though rail infrastructure has always played an important role in a country' s economic development, unfortunately, it is nowhere to be seen in the scenic east coast region of peninsula malaysia .
the centre was keen on taking up large - scale development of the railway network in tamil nadu and the state government should partner the railways to execute infrastructure projects, he said .
saharanpur marshalling yard under construction by the north western state rly. and the oudh and rohilkhund rly .
in 1899 the survey of rail line was ordered by the government of madras and undertaken by the the public works department (pwd). the construction of this broad gauge (bg) line, and named the east coast railway, was sanctioned in 1889 - 90 - see' personnel' .
train services on the mainline between london and edinburgh are once again being operated by a private firm after more than five years under state control, reigniting the row over ownership of the railway .
gipr network becomes state property on july 1, but the company is allowed to continue operating the services .
april: msmr merged with the lines worked by the sir company, and taken over by the state .
july 11: a flash flood washes out portions of the tracks on the chappar rift of the sind peshin state railway (now in pakistan), and through running never resumes on this line .
powers of the railway board are formalized under lord curzon. the board is under the department of commerce and industry, and has government railway official serving as chairman, and a railway manager from england and an agent of one of the company railways as the other two members .
bengal and north - western railway is taken over by the state, after being merged with the rohilkund and kumaon rly. , the mashrak - thane extension rly. , the lucknow - bareilly rly. , and the tirhut rly. the new railway is known as the oudh and tirhut rly .
south india rly.' s contract is renewed despite widespread support for appropriation by the state among local interests .
kanpur - chachran line opened by princely state of bahawalpur (now in pakistan, closed in the 1980s) .
brahmaputra - sultanpur branch rly. opens mg line from santahar east (with a ferry section) to mymensingh .
22 march: matheran light railway opens, with 4 articulated 0 - 6 - 0t locomotives .
bangalore - chikkaballapur light railway (2' 6
) opens the bangalore - yeshwantpur section .
railway finances separated from general finances in the general government budget after the first railway' convention'. railway board expanded to have a financial commissioner, a member in charge of ways, works, stores and projects, and a member in charge of administration, staff, and traffic .
bahawalnagar - fort abbas line opened by princely state of bahawalpur (now in pakistan, closed in the 1990s) .
world war ii. railways under strain again. locomotives, wagons, and track material are taken from india to the middle east; 28 branch lines were completely cannibalized for this. railway workshops are used to manufacture shells and other military equipment. the entire railway system is in poor shape by the end of the war .
sirhind - morinda section of the patiala state monorail is opened, powered by oxen and army mules from 1907 until 1927 .
ecrl would link all the key economic and industrial areas with the east coast economic region such as the malaysia - china kuantan industrial park ,
said ijm corp' s chief executive officer and managing director soam heng choon in an email to xinhua .
the jamnagar and dwarka railway procures a single mg diesel loco for its saurashtra passenger service, from brookville .
bowringpet - kolar 2' 6
line (part of the kolar district rly .) opened by the mysore state railways .
total trackage at 37, 000 miles (about 15% privately - held). the east india railway committee (chaired by sir william acworth, hence also known as the acworth committee) points out the need for unified management of the entire railway system. on the recommendations of this committee, the government takes over the actual management of all railways, and also separates railway finances from the general governmental finances (the latter step led to the practice, followed to this day, of presenting the railway budget separately from the general budget every year) .
railway board decides that lavatories will be provided in all lower class carriages for trains running more than 50 miles .
retrenchment committee under lord inchcape recommends drastic cuts in working expenses and other measures designed to produce a fixed annual profit for the state .
doug sutherland, chairman of dor, said :
during the year, we continued to make further good progress with the business turnaround of east coast, and at 91% , we were able to achieve the top customer satisfaction result for a long - distance franchised rail operator .
the railway board is reorganized with a chief commissioner of railways having overriding powers on technical matters. (1921? )
in 1902 the ecsr was divided with the northern section being transferred to the bengal - nagpur railway (bnr) .
the rail link is set to shorten the travelling time between east and west, from seven to 12 hours to less than four hours .
world war i places heavy strain on the railways. railway production is diverted to meet the needs of british forces outside india. at the end of the war indian railways are in a total state of dilapidation and disrepair. all services are downgraded or restricted .
“tamil nadu is an important state with big tourism potential, industries and the population which needs investments to improve the infrastructure, ” he said .
the tuc general secretary, frances o’grady, said it would be a “costly mistake”. she said: “by taking the east coast out of public ownership the government is passing the profits to stagecoach and virgin shareholders, instead of using the cash to reduce rail fares and improve services for passengers. ”
the 17. 30 east coast mainline service from london to newcastle was late and packed. sharon pitchford, martyn smith, tracy sowersby and terry adams, all returning home from work in the capital, were squeezed in by the toilets, along with 25 other standing passengers in the oppressively warm no man' s land between coaches e and d. cue another round of complaints about the state of britain' s railways? not at all .
in its five years as east coast, the state - run firm returned a little more than £1bn in premiums, as well as several million in profits, to the treasury. detailed financial analysis from the office of rail regulation shows it was one of two firms to make a net contribution to government coffers over the last two years, paying in more than it received in subsidy or indirect grants, along with southwest trains (run by stagecoach) .
that kind of popular approval explains why the government' s decision to formally launch the privatisation of the east coast mainline by offering it to tender is causing such bewilderment, confusion and anger among many regular travellers on the london - to - edinburgh route. on thursday, a posting by the government in the official journal of the european union in effect told interested private operators, rumoured to include eurostar and virgin, to come and get it. the question being asked by campaigners – and the 23, 000 people who have signed a petition demanding that the east coast service stay in public ownership – is why ?
a petrol - driven 0 - 4 - 0 loco from kerr stuart is in use by the morvi railway and tramways company .
the spur from the north - west territories into afghanistan, the only railway line in afghanistan at this time, is dismantled .
khyber railway' s last section from landi kotal to landi khana, 2km short of the frontier with afghanistan, is opened .
mr. prabhu told presspersons here that there had been a large backlog of railway projects in tamil nadu over the past several years because of poor financial allocation to the state under the previous united progressive alliance government. the bjp government, the minister said, had reversed this trend .
it' s a suspicion shared, perhaps unsurprisingly, by the rmt union, which has leaked what it believes is a draft prospectus for the east coast rail service' s sale with handwritten notes and revisions in the margin. it was, the prospectus says, intended for
investment professionals only
and not for wider circulation .
the firm also made pre - tax profits of £8. 4m – a rise of 40% – which were paid as a dividend to the department for transport. just under 20 million passenger journeys were made with east coast during the year, generating revenues of £720m. the line will be put back into private hands in march 2015 .
nov. 9: kalka - shimla railway line opened, built at 2' 0
gauge (but relaid later, see below) .
south india rly. is engaged in ultimately abandoned attempt to build a direct railway between india and ceylon with a viaduct over the panban viaduct .
ng lines opened: parlakimedi light rly. from navpada (bnr); rajpur - dhamtari (bnr). planning begun for matheran light railway .
kalka - shimla railway regauged to 2' 6
gauge under guidelines from the war department seeking to ensure uniformity in all imperial narrow gauge systems .
“i have requested the state government to form a joint venture with the railways to implement such infrastructure projects. this will benefit tamil nadu in a big way, ” he said .
the jodhpur railway becomes the first to introduce electric lights as standard fixtures. (electric lighting had been tried by other railways starting in the 1890s. )
ng lines: nainpur - chhindwara (bnr); howrah - tribeni (bengal provincial rly. co. , connecting to katwa line); gwalior light railway sections: gwalior - jora alapur (jan. 1), jora alapur - sabalgarh (dec. 1). construction begun on matheran light railway .
madras mg suburban railway line completed. (( april 2 ?) may 11: tambaram - beach has electric traction). the first mg emu service .
the post of minister for transport and communications is created; the minister was a civil servant, and could decide on matters dealt with by the railway board .
ng lines: purulia - ranchi (bnr); tuna - anjar extended to bhuj (cutch state rly .); shahdara - saharanpur light rly. (martin & co .) .
the east coast in public hands has paid more money back to the government than any of the private operators. the evidence shows taxpayers are getting better value for money and passengers are getting a better experience as a result of it being in public hands. the fact that the government is so willing to ignore the evidence demonstrates what we have already said: their position is driven by ideology .
sir thomas robertson committee submits recommendations on administration and working of the railways. an early version of the railway board is constituted, with three members serving on it at first .
there had been demand for providing important connectivity between chennai and kanniyakumari and there had been a proposal on laying a new line along the east coast, which would connect important tourism centres such as mamallapuram and the union territory of puducherry. “i want to revive this and request the tamil nadu government to join us, ” he said. it would bring about rail connectivity to ports, which was vital for economic growth, he further added .
paul salveson, author of a new book on the future of the railways, railpolitik, is equally perplexed. he suggests that, rather than being ignored, the successes of the nationalised east coast service could be a model from which to learn. salveson wants fresh thinking freed from the market ideology that has governed policy since
sid
was advised to buy shares in british gas in the 1980s. many of the passengers on the delayed 17. 30 to newcastle would agree .
the shadow transport secretary, michael dugher, said the ending of the state - run east coast company was “a hammer blow for passengers, taxpayers and employees alike”. he added: “david cameron’s ideological selloff has ended a public sector service which has delivered over £1bn to the treasury, kept fares down, had record passenger satisfaction and engaged the workforce with unparalleled success. “it is clear that when it comes to transport, people have a straight choice – the status quo or labour’s better plan. labour will start the process of legislating in the first 100 days of a new parliament to allow a public sector operator to be able to take on lines and challenge the private sector on a genuinely level playing field. ”
the success of the line in state hands, since national express gave up its franchise in 2009, has made its ownership a totemic issue with unions and political parties as the future of the rail industry is debated ahead of the next election .
a petrol - driven 0 - 4 - 9 loco is supplied to morvi railway and tramways by nasmyth wilson. a couple of thornycroft petrol - driven parcel delivery vehicles are also in use by the eir .
the first half of this year has seen levels of punctuality not achieved by any operator of the east coast mainline
since records in their current form began
, although poor weather affected the latter part of last year. the company has won 13 industry awards since april 2012, including that of being britain' s top employer. there has been a 4. 2% increase in ticket sales year - on - year, £208. 7m returned to the taxpayer during the year in premium and dividend payments, and a record level of customer satisfaction .
pointing out that proposals on laying new lines on the karaikal - mayiladuthurai - tranquebar, ramananathapuram - tuticorin - kanniyakumari and other sections in the state had been shelved as not feasible, mr. prabhu said he was trying to find ways to execute them over the next few years .
railway mileage now at about 24, 750 miles in india, of which 14, 000 miles are bg, and most of the rest mg (with only a few hundred miles of 2' and 2' 6
gauge lines) .
as the 17. 30 service pulled into peterborough, in the great northern hotel opposite the station, patrick brooks, 64, was putting his case forcefully at a passengers' forum hosted by east coast rail. his ire was directed at the local tory mp, stewart jackson, sitting opposite him across an oval boardroom table .
you sit there praising the staff and the service, but you talk with a forked tongue ,
brooks told a clearly affronted jackson .
you can' t explain ,
brooks added ,
why it is a good idea to hand it over to a private provider .
manuel cortes, leader of the tssa rail union, said :
this firm will have paid £1bn to the treasury by the time it is sold off. this is all about tory dogma rather than running a social railway for the benefit of the public .
mr. prabhu commissioned a 16 - km electrified double line stretch between villupuram junction and tiruvennainallur road and a new waiting hall and a vip lounge at vriddhachalam railway junction through video conference from here. he announced the extension of the tiruchi - tirunelveli intercity express up to thiruvananthapuram .
ng lines: barsi light railway extended until latur; champaner - shivrajpuri light rly. (later part of bb & ci); dehri - on - sone - rohtas (dehri - rohtas light rly .); bukhtiarpur - bihar rly. (martin & co .) .
two new branches of the darjeeling himalayan railway opened to traffic. the kalimpong road (now gelkhola) branch followed the teesta valley (hence known as the teesta valley line) and the kishanganj branch (built in the preceding year, 1914) ran west - southwest of siliguri .
ng lines: wadhwan - rajkot line of morvi rly. converted to bg; rupsa - barapada line of mourbhang (mayurbhanj) rly. opens (bnr); tirupattur - krishnagiri; gondia - nainpur line extended to jabalpur (bnr); tuna - anjar by the maharaja of cutch, later part of the cutch state rly .
ceylon government railway extends the line from polgahawela to talaimannar at the northern tip of ceylon (now sri lanka), to enable connecting services with sir trains with a ferry crossing across the palk strait. steamer services from dhanushkodi (india) to talaimannar (ceylon) start on march 1 .
and while virgin, on the west coast, has received £179. 6m in revenue support from the government since 2009 and a £1. 2bn network grant, dor has had no revenue support and a lesser, £980m network grant. back on the 17. 30 service, tracy sowersby put it succinctly :
if it ain' t broke, why fix it ?
the ecrl will be an electric railway line crossing kelantan, terengganu, pahang and selangor states. it will accommodate passenger trains at a maximum speed of 160 km per hour and goods trains at a maximum speed of 80 km per hour. construction of the rail link is expected to be completed by 2024 .
india' s first electric locos (two of them) are delivered to the mysore gold fields by bagnalls (stafford) with overhead electrical equipment by siemens. also among the earliest electric vehicles, electrically operated rail trolleys (
white' s patented rail motor trolleys
) are brought into use (by eir' s carriage & wagon workshops, by the oudh and rohilkhund rly. , by the eastern bengal state rly. , etc .) .
february 3: first electric railway operates on harbour branch of the gipr from victoria terminus to kurla (16 km), using 1500v dc overhead traction. the section is designated as a suburban section. emus from cammell laird and uerdingenwagonfabrik are used. in the same year electrification of vt - bandra is also completed and emu services begin there as well, with an elevated platform at sandhurst road. the gipr suburban line is later electrified up to kalyan .
earlier, speaking at a function to mark the commissioning of a 2. 13 - km bypass line connecting the main and the chord lines at golden rock in tiruchi and other projects here, mr. prabhu said the average annual allocation for railway projects in tamil nadu was only ₹878 crore in 10 years prior to the bjp coming to power at the centre in 2014. during 2015 - 16 and 2016 - 17, the allocation was more than doubled and in 2017 - 18 it was scaled up to ₹2, 300 crore .
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upper sone bridge built, the longest in india at 10, 052 feet .
calcutta tramways' electrification and conversion to standard gauge from meter gauge begins. total system size is at 30km .
the railways also start returning some modest profits; for the last 40 years they had been making large losses .
eir' s
grand chord
section finished connecting sitarampur - gaya - mughalsarai .
mg lines: kaunia - dharlla rly. lines converted to mg; jodhpur - hyderabad (by jodhpur bikaner rly. , after a section near hyderabad is converted from bg to mg) .
a monorail of the ewing system (double - flanged wheels and an outrigger wheel for balance) powered by ponies is installed for transporting tea and other light goods at the high range near keranganie .
the luni - shadipalli line is completed in the thar desert. the shadipalli - hyderabad (now pakistan) line is regauged to mg .
the robertson report recommends re - laying all bg and mg lines to standard gauge, but this report seems to have been completely ignored .
the first bogie - mounted coaches appear, including bogie dining cars on some railways .
assam - bengal rly. joins dibru - sadiya rly. at tinsukia from chittagong via lumding (mg) .
gipr appoints its first signal engineer (following belatedly in eir' s footsteps), mr i w stokes .
interlocking introduced for 9 stations (3 on bombay - thane section, 6 on thane - kalyan section) - - including bombay vt .
ng lines: gondia - nainpur (bnr); kohat - thal (later nwr) .
the moghulpura workshops near lahore build six 0 - 6 - 2t
st
class locos by using parts from other locos, making them the only works other than ajmer to build locomotives in (british) india .
the visit of the prince and princess of wales gives eir a chance to build a special train with coaches rivalling the luxury saloons used by nobility in europe .
f
class 0 - 6 - 0 mg locomotives are introduced, soon to be among the most widely - used in india for just about all kinds of duties. dubs & co. of glasgow built the first few .
entire calcutta tram network is now electrified and converted to standard gauge. the howrah station to bandhaghat line opens in june .
construction begins on a new, larger howrah terminus station with six platforms and provision for four more, to replace the older howrah station in use from 1854 .
bb & ci rly. starts a weekend special from bombay to surat, the forerunner of the flying ranee .
dec. 6: the grand chord via gaya, which significantly shortens the distance between delhi and calcutta, opens on the eir' s calcutta - delhi trunk route (inaugurated by the earl of minto, the viceroy and governor - general of india .
indian standard time (ist) comes into force for timekeeping in british india (except for calcutta and some other regions) .
the government purchases all major lines and re - leases them to private operators, with the exception of rohilkhund & kumaon rly. and bengal & north - western rly .
by now, toilets are standard in most lower class carriages, except for short suburban lines .
india' s first internal combustion locomotive, a petrol - driven mg loco, is delivered to the assam oil co. by mcewan pratt & co. of wickford, essex .
ng lines: gwalior - sheopur kalan (2' gauge, gwalior light rly .), sabalgarh - birpur (nov. 1) .
23 - ton bg bogie hopper wagons brought into use by bengal nagpur rly. for transporting iron to the tata iron and steel works .
the harbour line opens from kurla to reay road as the terminus (double track) .
syke' s lock and block system of interlocking introduced on the bb & ci rly. and other railways .
ng lines: gwalior light rly. : birpur - sheopur (jun. 15 )
cabin interlocking completed for the entire length of the bombay - delhi route (gipr) .
ng lines: bb & ci lines to godhra, nadiad; jessore - jhenidah (mcleod' s) .
ng lines: kalabagh - bannu (trans - indus rly. ; later nwr) .
in the mumbai area, suburban terminals are opened at kurla, kalyan, thane, and one at the bb & ci station at bandra for gipr trains .
rbs standards for rails adopted (90lb / yd for bg, 60lb / yd for mg) .
ng lines: dholpur - bari line extended to tantpur; dhond - baramati (central provinces rly. ; later gipr); murtazapur - achalpur / yavatmal; arrah - sasaram, baraset - basirhat (martin & co .); larkana - jacobabad and jacobabad - kashmore (nwr, now in pakistan after conversion to bg) .
lower ganges bridge (hardinge bridge) opened on the trunk route to siliguri on the eir .
mandra - bhaun and sialkot - narowal lines opened (both now in pakistan; the former was closed in the 1990s) .
first ever diesel locomotive in india, a 2' 6
gauge unit from avonside (bristol) is supplied to the india office for use on a tea plantation (in assam? ?) .
ng lines: yeshwantpur - devanahalli - chikaballapur section of what would become the bangalore chikaballapur light rly. opens (2' 6
); ellichpur - yeotmal (central provinces rly. ; later gipr); burdwan - katwa (mcleod' s) .
yeshwantpur - yelahanka mg line is made mixed gauge to allow ng 2' 6
traffic .
ng lines: pulgaon - arvi (central provinces rly. , later gipr); khanai - hindubagh (zhob valley rly. ; later nwr); bankura - damodar, kalighat - falta, and ahmadpur - katwa (mcleod' s) .
nushki extension rly. towards iran opened till dalbandin, from spezand on the sibi - quetta line .
wagon pooling comes into wide use among the various regional railways as a result of war - time necessities .
oct. 1: mysore darbar takes over nanjangud - mysore - bangalore and birur - shimoga lines .
ng lines: pachora - jamner (central provinces rly. ; later gipr) .
bhusawal loco shed set up by gipr; at the time the largest loco shed in asia and the third largest in the world .
a 2' gauge diesel loco is delivered to bengal by baugleys of burton - on - trent. (1921? )
the peninsular locomotive company is founded at jamshedpur for the purpose of building locomotives; this would have been the third loco manufacturing plant in india after ajmer and jamlpur, but unfortunately it failed even before it manufactured a single loco .
an electric loco with overhead power collection is delivered to the naysmyth patent press co. at calcutta, by british electric vehicles .
locomotive standards committee publishes a paper with details of proposed standardization of locomotive classes .
jamnagar - kuranga mg line opened by the jamnagar & dwarka rly. , and the kuranga - okha mg line by the okhamandal rly .
ng lines: larkana - jacobabad (nwr); futwah - islampur (martin & co .) .
uniform system of loco classification codes based on an initial letter for the gauge comes into use .
rajkot - morvi 2' 6
line of morvi rly. converted to bg .
feb. 3: the ef / 1 (later wcg - 1 )
crocodile
loco is introduced .
irca reviews experiments with wagon pooling and establishes it as a policy for all bg railways .
ex - gipr suburban line is electrified up to kalyan. main line electrified up to poona and igatpuri over the bhore and thal ghats (1500 v dc) .
order placed with vulcan foundry for the new classes of locos (xa, xb, xc, etc .) .
aug. 27: nanjangud - chamarajanagar section opened, completing the link from mysore .
the bb & ci suburban lines extended to borivili and virar. in the bombay area tracks in some places are doubled and even tripled or quadrupled (e. g. , between bandra and borivili) .
ng lines: line from barsi road jn. to pandharpur is extended to miraj; dehri - rohtas extended to rohtas fort. in nepal, the raxaul - amlekhganj line is opened (martin & co .) .
8 - coach emu rakes are introduced on the main line in mumbai and 4 - coach rakes on the harbour line .
jan 5: colaba - borivili section electrification completed by bb & ci rly .
two suburban tracks of the bombay - borivli section are electrified, but the two mainline tracks are left for steam traction. the first batch of electric emus for bombay arrive (made by british thompson houston / cammell laird) .
sep. 1: the frontier mail is flagged off from colaba terminus, with peshawar as its destination .
first automatic colour - light signals in india, on gipr' s lines between bombay vt and byculla .
railways build more than 1, 000 miles of tracks each year. general period of prosperity for the railways - - generous provisions are made for passenger amenities (waiting rooms, etc .) .
railways (like everything else !) hit by the 1929 wall street crash and the ensuing global depression; severe economy measures undertaken .
kalyan - igatpuri - pune section is now completely electrified, and the quadruple line between bombay and kalyan is also electrified .
a 2' gauge diesel loco from maffei is supplied to c k andrew and co. (probably used on a plantation? )
chola power house near thakurli built by the gipr for supplying power for the newly electrified kalyan - igatpuri - pune section .
punjab limited express begins to run between mumbai and lahore, leaving mumbai on thursdays .
bombay' s victoria terminus undergoes some reconstruction work so that it gets 14 platforms .
ng lines: bb & ci line to piplod; kangra valley rly. (nwr) .
the times (london) nominates the frontier mail
the most famous express train in the british empire
.
june 1: the deccan queen begins running, hauled by a wcp - 1 (no. 20024, old number ea / 1 4006) and with 7 coaches, on the gipr' s newly electrified route to poona (pune) .
the route of the grand trunk exp. is changed to delhi - madras .
samdari - raniwara section opens as the first phase of a rail connection between jodhpur - bikaner and gujarat. phalodi - jodhpur section opens .
total trackage in india at about 43, 000 miles. hardly any new construction until after world war ii .
ng lines: darwha - pusad (central provinces rly; later gipr) .
msmr' s workshops at perambur split into the carriage and wagon workshops and the locomotive workshops .
nwr procures two 1200hp diesel - electric locos from armstrong - whitworth with the intention of using them for a new bombay - karachi route. they were deployed on the karachi - lahore mail route, but then were withdrawn soon afterwards, having manifested many problems as they were not designed for indian conditions .
borivli - virar electrification complete. the two mainline tracks on the bombay - borivli section are also electrified .
air - conditioning introduced in some (first - class) passenger coaches. matunga workshops manufacture 5 air - conditioned coaches, the first such to be made locally .
jodhpur rly. acquires two drewry railcars, one for the maharaja and the other an inspection car .
wedgwood committee makes recommendations for public relations, advertising, etc. which until then had been neglected. also recommends faster and more reliable passenger services and expansion of freight activities, for the railways to compete with road transport .
the infamous bihta accident, in which the excessive oscillations of an xb class loco caused the derailment of the punjab - howrah mail, killing 154 persons .
ng lines: in nepal, the nepal jaynagar - janakpur rly. opens .
may 1: the flying queen (predecessor of flying ranee) is introduced between bombay and surat, hauled by an h class 4 - 6 - 0 and making her run in 4 hours .
all lines of the msmr in mysore are taken over by the mysore darbar .
a light railcar built at bikaner is used on the minor lines around there .
the power systems of the chola power house and the tata hydroelectric plant are combined for supplying traction power to bombay - area suburban trains as well as for long - distance trains across the ghats .
large numbers of american and canadian locos are imported (awd, cwd, along with awc, awe, and mawd classes) .
the' following trains' system of train working is introduced as an emergency measure in some areas out of necessity because of wartime requirements .
nok kundi - zahidan section of the nushki extension rly. is re - opened .
the opening of the howrah bridge in february allows the calcutta routes of trams to be connected to the howrah routes; total system is at 67km .
fifteen diesel locos from ge supplied by usatc and deployed on wr, among the first diesel locos to be successfully used in many locations in india. most of these were classified as wds - 1 .
a skelton system monorail (locomotive with rubber tires guided by a rail, and wagons carried on the rail with outrigger wheels for stability) is installed for the 18km section from bhanvad to khambalia in gujarat, powered by a modified diesel loco .
the chronology continues in part 4, listing events from 1947 - 1970. part 5 - 1970 to 1995 & part 6 - 1995 to present day .
the chronology begins in part 1 (1832 - 1870). part 2 covers 1870 - 1899. part 4 covers 1947 to 1970. part 5 covers 1970 to 1995, and part 6 covers 1995 to 1999, while part 7 covers 2000 to the present
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results published by directly operated railways (dor), the company established in july 2009 to take over the running of the london - to - edinburgh route from the loss - making national express, showed that its premium payments to the government had risen from £202m to £216. 8m in 2014, making a total of more than £1bn over its five - year lifespan .
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more services and a new fleet have been promised for the line over the next few years, bringing a 50% increase in capacity and faster journeys to the capital .
stagecoach has pledged to invest about £140m to deliver what it calls “an improved service and a more personalised travel experience for customers”, and is scheduled to pay £3. 3bn in premiums to the government .
the previous two private operators failed to meet their financial commitments. a small government - owned company, directly operated railways, stepped in to run trains on the mainline in late 2009 after the last franchisee, national express, walked away when revenues fell during the financial crisis .
the rmt union staged protests on saturday at stations along the route to mark its final day in public ownership. mick cash, the general secretary, said the public sector had not only “rescued this vital rail link from total meltdown but turn [ ed ] around its performance”. he said the re - privatisation was “an act of industrial vandalism that will smash apart britain’s most successful rail company for just one reason – it is publicly owned. ”
dugher added: “labour will also hold a speedy review of rail franchising to replace it with a system fit for purpose and create a strong passenger voice within a new strategic body for running the railways. ”
public ownership has transformed the service and on the 17. 30 to newcastle, many regulars can' t see the point of privatising it
it' s pretty good normally ,
said adams, 51, an engineer for bp based in newark, nottinghamshire .
i find it a lot more reliable and cheaper than the other lines ,
added pitchford, 51, a civil servant from doncaster, as she was thrown into a wall by the train' s sudden swerve .
it' s very good ,
agreed sowersby, 47, and smith, 55, both nhs executives returning from a conference to their homes near hull, dodging a swinging handbag as its owner repositioned herself .
not only did the paying passengers praise britain' s only high - profile publicly owned rail service, they assumed that the difficulties that day were unavoidable (they were right: the behaviour of a passenger on an earlier train had prompted the involvement of the british transport police, delaying every subsequent service). they also approved of being able to buy £10 one - way tickets and the availability of £24 tickets to london during the olympics .
in november 2009, the then labour government took the line under public control because its private operator, national express, could not afford to run it on the terms it had rashly promised back in 2007. back then it had beaten off opposition from competitors, agreeing to pay the treasury an increased £1. 4bn to operate the franchise until the end of march 2015 .
the previous owner of the franchise, gner, had been stripped of the route after its us parent firm was struck by financial troubles. national express, a seemingly solid company, was saving the day, and promising to inject £7. 4m into upgrading stations, including the creation of 2, 000 car park spaces, while the number of weekday trains would rise from 136 to 161 and a new london - to - lincoln service would be added .
it was, according to then transport minister tom harris, very good news. within two years, national express realised it was losing money hand over fist – but the government was not willing to renegotiate. lord adonis, then transport secretary, set up directly operated railways, a not - for - dividend subsidiary of the department for transport, to manage the service. the last four years, according to dor' s own accounts, published this month, have been an extraordinary success .
for green mp caroline lucas, who is championing a private member' s bill due for its second reading in the commons in february that would renationalise the entire rail network, it sounds like a strange goal. because, she said, such a revitalisation is already afoot .
the union claims that a paragraph noting that the line was
three percentage points ahead of the long - distance train operator average
in the 2012 national passenger survey was in the draft but struck out for the final prospectus. it believes the service' s successes are being talked down to avoid controversy. the government accuses the union of scaremongering .
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the route included the construction of the kistna bridge at bezwada to cross the river kistna. this bridge was designed by sir alexander rendel with f j e spring as engineer - in - chief and ernest ifill shadbolt as executive engineer on construction .
the ecsr opened the first section from vizianagaram to waltair, 38 miles in 1893 in 1893; extended northwards to reach cuttack in 1897 via naupada, berhampur, ganjam and kurdha to cuttack. total length 294 miles (470km). [ 1 ]
’naupada salt branch’, a short line 2. 4 miles (3. 8km) from parlakimedi road (naupada) ] ] [ 1 ] .
’puri branch’, opened 1897, 27 miles (43km) from khurda to puri ] ]. [ 1 ] .
the ecsr opened the section southwards from waltair to rajahmundry in 1893. also in 1893 from bezwada northwards to kovvur. the line was completed in 1900 with the opening of the havelock bridge over the godavari river connecting rajahmundry to kovvur. the line length was 217 miles (436km) [ 2 ]
henry wilkins clift, 1889, ecsr survey, executive enginner [ 5 ] .
frank haman walford morse, 1890, ecsr survey, executive engineer and in 1894, executive engineer on open sections of line [ 8 ] .
alfred brereton, 1893, ecsr manager and engineer - in - chief [ 10 ] .
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analysts and business communities see the 55 - billion ringgit ($ 13 billion) mega project as a new spur to the region' s economy .
the immediate economic growth is fairly positive ,
said standard chartered bank' s asean economic research head edward lee .
in the short term, chinese contractors may put forward competition in malaysia' s construction sector, but this may raise the overall productivity in the long run, he said .
furthermore, chinese companies have the technology and management know - how on infrastructure projects as they have rich experience handling projects locally and overseas, he said .
construction firms are the immediate beneficiary of the mega project, prompting analysts to upgrade the outlook of the sector. local contractors and engineering consulting firms are expected to benefit from the subcontracts totaling 16. 5 billion ringgit .
the construction of ecrl will spur construction gdp growth between 2018 and 2024. the multiplier effect will also support overall gdp growth ,
affin hwang capital research analyst loong chee wei told xinhua, adding that building material suppliers will also be benefited .
last week, bmi research of fitch group has upgraded its five - year forecast for malaysia' s construction industry annual growth to 6. 3 percent .
currently, malaysia has more than 83 on - going construction projects worth $ 100 billion. rail projects account 19 percent of the total value .
the development of malaysia - china kuantan industrial park (mckip), a flagship cooperation between malaysia and china, will also be boosted .
currently, the group and its chinese partner guangxi beibu gulf group aims to double the capacity of the kuantan port to 52 million in handling freight weight tons upon completion of its upgrading plan .
meanwhile, wz satu' s executive chairman and chief executive officer uzir bin ubaidullah believed that the improvement of transport infrastructure will spur the economic activities in the area, and eventually enhance property values in the region .
inter - connectivity is the greatest advantage provided by ecrl ,
the kuantan - born entrepreneur told xinhua over the phone .
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the east coast state railway was a railway company operating in india . it was a guaranteed company formed in 1890 . it had a brief existence . the southern part of the east coast state railway ( from waltair to vijayawada ) was taken over by madras railway in 1901 . the northern part of the line was merged with bengal nagpur railway in 1902 . during the period 1893 to 1896 , 1,287 km ( 800 mi ) of the east coast state railway , from vijayawada to cuttack was built and opened to traffic . it included the line to puri . 
the east coast state railway was a railway company operating in india. it was a guaranteed company formed in 1890. it had a brief existence. the southern part of the east coast state railway (from waltair to vijayawada) was taken over by madras railway in 1901. the northern part of the line was merged with bengal nagpur railway in 1902. during the period 1893 to 1896, 1,287 km (800 mi) of the east coast state railway, from vijayawada to cuttack was built and opened to traffic. it included the line to puri.
the east coast state railway was a railway company operating in india. it was a guaranteed company formed in 1890. it had a brief existence. the southern part of the east coast state railway (from waltair to vijayawada) was taken over by madras railway in 1901. the northern part of the line was merged with bengal nagpur railway in 1902. during the period 1893 to 1896, 1,287 km (800 mi) of the east coast state railway, from vijayawada to cuttack was built and opened to traffic. it included the line to puri.