Railway plans promote Oudh Rohilkund lines with India gauge shift
Debate over adopting five feet six inch gauge for new lines in Oudh and Rohilkund compares costs and returns with Nubatee line. Projections show higher population, strong traffic along Lucknow Cawnpore routes, and government subsidies boosting profitability to about 5.66 percent. Directors authorized £100,000 borrowing and re-elected.
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India
Oudh
Rohilkund
Asum
Nulhatee
Benares
Moorshedabad
Europe
Lucknow
Cawnpore
Fyzabad
Benares and
Bakul Cokka
Punjab
Lahore
Unmritsh
Dent
Wilson
Powsy
North-West Provinces
East India Line
Powery
General Low
Turnbull
East Indian Railway seeks extra capital in London meeting
An extraordinary meeting at the London Tavern chaired by Mr R W Crawford MP approved introducing a Bill to raise about £7 million on shares and £2.33 million on loans, totaling near £10 million. The funds would extend over years for main line and Jubbulpore branch works, Howrah terminal upgrades, and a Chord line. also to close Calcutta register office and establish a provident fund for European staff with audit timing adjusted.
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East Indian Railway
London Tavern
R. W. Crawford
M.P
Noad
Wharncliffe
Jubbulpore
Howrah
Calcutta
Grand Terminal
Luckserai
Ranegunge
Secretary of State For
India
London and North-Western Railway Company
Newman
Hammersmith and City Railway Company
Duke-street
Westminster
Foukes
Great Western Railway Company
Hammersmith and City Company
Hammersmith
Great Western
Kensington
Metropolitan
Staunton
Surgey
Rummens
Boston, Sleaford, and Midland Counties Railway
Euston Hotel
Euston Square
Thomas Parry
Great Northern Railway Company
Lincoln
Sleaford
Bourne and Essendine
Bourne
Great Northern Railway
Great Northern
Boston, Sleaford, and Midland Company
Kindersley
William Turquand
Warwick and Worcester Railway Company
London and Greenwich Railway Company
Atlantic and Great Western Railway
Northern Railway of Canada
London Joint Stock Bank
Michigan Central Railway
Government of
Ceylon
Shannon
Copiapo Railway
Copiapo Extension Railway
Royal Sardinian Railway Company
Grand Trunk Railway Company
Detroit
Port Huron
Great Southern of India Railway Company
Union Bank of London
Northern
Buenos Ayres
Ilinois Central Railroad Company
New York
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Nassau-street
Scrip
Audit Department Sanctioned by Government in India
The chairman stated that the company had established an efficient audit department in India with government sanction. The shareholders including Mr Morgan and Mr Goez approved the resolution approving the bill unanimously as the proceedings ended.
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Morgan
Goez
India
Adjourned railway meeting notes profits and losses in 1863
The adjourned half yearly meeting of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway proprietors at the London Tavern chaired by W. J. Hamilton adopted accounts showing a 23700 pound compensation loss for damage to impressed cotton. It outlined future measures, including presses at three stations, and noted February losses from the same cause.
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Great Indian Peninsular
London Tavern
W. J. Hamilton
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