Chronology of railways in India, (1995 – present)

> 1995 January 16: First regularly scheduled services on trains hauled by locos using the 2*25kV ‘dual’ system of traction (Bina-Katni on CR). January: First prototype of the CONCERT passenger reservation system developed at Secunderabad. Gauge conversion of Purna-Nanded / Manmad-Mudkhed MG section breaks the MG network’s north-south connection. (Mudkhed-Secunderabad is left as an isolated MG line.) Khodiyar-Mehsana MG section converted to BG. DLW and GM sign contract for technology transfer for GM’s GT46MAC and 710 series locos, and the purchase of 31 GT46MAC/GT46PAC locos. April: The first WDP-1 loco is commissioned. April 2: New Madras Beach – Tambaram BG line. July 18: The first WDG-2 loco is commissioned. December 6: Last official BG steam service (Jalandhar-Ferozepur). Hassan-Mangalore...

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Chronology of railways in India, (1970 – 1995)

> 1970 1 Up / 2 Dn Bombay-Howrah Mail via Nagpur is dieselized; it is hauled by an electric loco between Howrah and Rourkela and between Igatpuri and Bombay. June 30: The last WG is manufacturered by CLW (WG 10560 Antim Sitara). CLW produces its first WAM-4 locos. Shahdara-Saharanpur line of Martin’s Light Railways closed. Across the border, Pakistan’s first electric services begin on June 25 (Lahore-Khanewal, 268km). Oct. : One line of the Howrah network of the Calcutta trams is closed. 1971 WCG-2 and WCAM-1 design prototypes are tested. Farakka railway bridge (one of the longest prestressed concrete bridges) is opened and the Assam Mail is routed through it, reducing its running time by five hours. Jan 1: Howrah-Amta, Howrah-Sheokhala sections of Martin’s Light Railway closed. The...

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Chronology of railways in India,(1947 – 1970)

> 1947 Apr. 1: Mandra-Bhaun line taken over by state (now in Pakistan). Independence/Partition. Two big systems, Bengal Assam Railway and North Western Railway are no longer in India (these included the workshops of Saidpur and Mogulpura, respectively). Some 2955 route-km of NWR became the East Punjab Railway in India, leaving 8070km in the then West Pakistan. Part of the Jodhpur Railway also went to West Pakistan. Much of the Bengal Assam Railway went to the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Exchanging assets and staff dislocates all normal work, as does the large-scale movement of people between India and Pakistan. Assam Railway is cut off from the rest of the Indian system. Traffic patterns change drastically. Instead of Karachi to northern India, now all traffic is from Bombay. Traffic...

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