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Railways in British India. Printed account of ‘Proceedings at the Fortieth Ordinary General Meeting of the Proprietors in the Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company Limited . Sir Samuel Hoare Bart. in the Chair’.

24750 — ‘Held at 132 Gresham House Old Broad Street London on Tuesday 18th December 1906’. The Bengal Nagpur Railway Company was formed in 1887 and continued until 1952 when it merged with the East Indian Railway Company to form the Eastern Railway. The present item is 4pp 4to. Bifolium. Printed in small type in double column. In good condition lightly aged with one central vertical fold. Excessively scarce: no other copy traced either on WorldCat JISC or ViaLibri. The business of the meeting includes ‘receiving the Directors’ Report and Audited Statements of Accounts and Balance Sheet to 30th June 1906 and the Auditors’ Report thereon’. The chairman Sir Samuel Hoare gives details of ‘new lines now under construction’: ‘On the Gondia-Chanda line the portion from Gondia to Nagbeer and from Nagbeer to Nagpur a distance of 157 miles is almost complete and platelaying is about to commence. Earthwork has recently been started on the Nagbeer-Chanda section length of 66 miles. It is hoped that a considerable portion of the line will be opened for traffic by March 1908. / The work on the Purulia-Ranchi line is well advanced . The construction work on the first 50 miles from Vizianagram of the Rajpur-Vizianagram line’. Other topics include ‘the ghats on the Neinpur-Bilaspur Line’ revenue working expenses gross earnings the ‘increase in coaching traffic’ the ‘recent opening by the Viceroy on 6th December of the Grand Chord Line of the East Indian Railway’ the ‘increase in first and second-class passenger traffic’ goods traffic the price of coal new machinery. Hoare’s ‘long and interesting speech’ is responded to by Martin Wood. ‘Held at 132 Gresham House, Old Broad Street, [London] on Tuesday, 18th December, 1906’. unknown