Indian Railway History

• The First Railways in India by Simon Darvill, 2011
• Chronology of Electrification, from CORE, 2004.
• Eminent Railwaymen of Yesteryears by R R Bhandari, 2008
• Historical Train Times by John Lacey and others
• Railway Network Sizes From The 19^th Century
• Closed Marshalling Yards by Alok Patel, 2004.
• Rules for Railway Projects, 1893 by Julian Rainbow, 1995
• India: The Complex History of the Junctions at Siliguri and New Jalpaiguri by Alastair Boobyer (from Rinbad)
• Railways as Agents of Change in 19th Century Banaras Region from Culture and Power in Banaras, ed. Sandria B. Freitag (1989) Extract selected by R Sivaramakrishnan
• How soon is soon? On the England-India railway link proposed in 1871, by R Sivaramakrishnan, 2009.
• The Indian Steam Pages
• Chronological History of Railways in India

The following texts are from the UK Law Commission's publication on statute law revision to repeal British laws related to railways in India. They contain much information on the legal frameworks for the early railways operating in India.

• Indian Railways Repeal Proposals - Background
• Assam Railways and Trading Company
• Bengal and North Western Railway Company
• Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Company
• Calcutta and South Eastern Railway Company
• Ceylon Railway Company
• Eastern Bengal Railway Company
• East Indian Railway Company
• Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company
• Great Southern of India Railway Company and South Indian Railway Company
• Madras Railway Company
• Oude Railway Company
• Scinde Railway Company

• Opening of the Madras Railway and other news, 1856: Extracts from Australian Newspapers Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Railway Operations in India, 1855-1856: Extracts from Australian Newspapers Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Railways in western India, 1856: Extracts from Australian Newspapers Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Proposal for Bombay-Surat-Baroda-Ahmedabad line, etc., 1855: Extracts from Australian Newspapers Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Opening of the East Indian Railway (1), 1855: Extracts from Australian Newspapers Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Opening of the East Indian Railway (2), 1855: Extracts from Australian Newspapers Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• The First Train in India (GIPR), 1853: Extracts from Australian Newspapers Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Official Resistance to Railways in India, 1853: Extract from Charles Dickens' Household Words Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Various extracts: Bombay-Thana opening, report on the GIPR, the Sepoy Mutiny, and railway accidents, from the Railway Times (1853-1887)
• Travels of the Prince of Wales in India, 1875-1876, by William Howard Russell (1877) Selected and edited by B M S Bisht
• Notes of an Indian Journey, by M. E. Grant Duff (1876) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Extracts from Murray's Handbook of the Madras Presidency, by E. B. Eastwick (1879) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Travels in Central India, Bombay, and Bengal, by L. Rousselet (1882) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• A Winter in India, by W. E. Baxter, M.P. (1882) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Indian Railways: Impediments to Progress, from the Railway Engineer (1884)
• Geography of Assam (1896) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Our Life and Travels in India by W. Wakefield (1898) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan

• Impressions of Indian Travel, by Oscar Browning (1903) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Cooch Behar State Railways, by H. N. Chaudhuri (1903) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Madura, by W. Francis, District Gazetteers Series (1905) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• The Romantic East: Burma, Assam, Kashmir, by Walter Del Mar (1906) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Thacker's Guide to Calcutta, by Rev. W. K. Firminger (1906) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Chhattisgarh, by E. A. de Brett, I.C.S., Central Provinces District Gazetteer (1906) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Shahabad, by L. S. S. O'Malley, I.C.S., Bengal District Gazetteers Series (1906) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Vizagapatnam, by W. Francis, District Gazetteers Series (1907) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• The South Indian Railway in Trichinopoly District, District Gazetteers Series (1907) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• India Impressions, by W. Crane (1907) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Personnel, from the Indian Railway Gazette (1908)
• The Book of Ceylon, by Henry W. Cave (1908) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• North-west Frontier Province, by H. A. Rose, I. C. S., in the Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series (1908) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Impressions of India, by Sir H. Craik (1908) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• The Nilgiri Railway, by B. S. Baliga, in the Madras District Gazetteers: The Nilgiris (1908) Selected by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Hyderabad, by Mirza Mehdy Khan, in the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1909) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Howrah, by L. S. S. O'Malley and M. Chakravarti, in the Bengal District Gazetteer (1909) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Raipur, by A. E. Nelson, I.C.S., Central Provinces District Gazetteer (1909) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Nadia, by J. H. E. Garrett, I.C.S., in the Bengal District Gazetteer (1910) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Bilaspur, ed. A. E. Nelson, Central Provinces District Gazetteer (1910) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan

• Railways in India, from the Railway Gazette (1911)
• Manbhum, by H Coupland, I.C.S., in the Bengal District Gazetteer (1911) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Noakhali, by J. E. Webster, I.C.S., in the Eastern Bengal District Gazetteer (1911) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Dacca, by B. C. Allen, I.C.S., in the Eastern Bengal District Gazetteer (1912) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• On the opening of the Bhopal State Railway, by Sultan Jahan Begum, Nawab of Bengal (1912) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• India, Burma, Ceylon - Information for Travellers and Residents, Thomas Cook and Son. (1912) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Goalundo Ghat - From the Hooghly to the Himalayas, by The Times Press (1913) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• The Sara [Hardinge] Bridge - From the Hooghly to the Himalayas , by The Times Press (1913) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Murshidabad, by L. S. S. O'Malley, in the Bengal District Gazeetteer (1914) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Modern Hyderabad, by J. Law (1914) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Godavary District, by F. T. Hemingway, District Gazetteers Series (1915) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Cuddapah District, by C. F. Brackenbury, I.C.S., Madras District Gazetteers Series (1915) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Salem District Gazetteer by F. J. Richards (1916) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Mymensingh District Gazetteer by Sir F. A. Sachse (1917) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Hazaribagh District Gazetteer by E. Lister (1918) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Report of the Baroda Economic Development Committee (1918-1919) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• India's Demand for Transportation, by W E Weld (1920) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan

• Opening of the Khyber Railway, from the Railway Gazette (1925)
• Visit to the Swindon Works by King Amanullah of Afghanistan, from the Railway Gazette (1928)
• Travels in Southern and Western India by T.H. Croxall (1932) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• The Hukong Valley Route for an Indo-Burma Railway, Sadiya Frontier Tract, by Sir Robert Reid (1942) Selected and edited by R Sivaramakrishnan
• Indian Railways and the Punjab disturbances, a report on the Partition of British India, from the Railway Gazette (1947)
• Mahatma Gandhi's cremation special, from the Railway Gazette (1948)
• Indian Railways Centenary Celebrations, from the Railway Gazette (1953)