Bengal and North Western Railway
The Bengal and North Western Railway was owned and worked by the Bengal and North Western Railway Company (registered 23 October 1882, dissolved October 1946).
1885 Formed to build a single track railway on the metre gauge aggregating 500 miles in length between the rivers Gunduk and Gogra and between the Gogra and the Ganges. The main line to start at Sonpore. Currently 303 miles in operation. A. M. Rendel and Henry Prince, Consulting Engineers; E. L. Marryat, Secretary.[1]
1899 Officers: A. M. Rendel, Consulting Engineer.[2]
1910 Officers: Rendel and Robertson, Consulting Engineers; E. A. Neville, Agent; W. J. Turnbull, Chief Engineer (Gorakhpur); W. Longmuir, Locomotive and Carriage Superintendent (Gorakhpur); J. Walker, Traffic Manager (Gorakhpur); C. V. Bliss, Assistant Traffic Manager; H. P. Dick, Superintendent of Stores (Samistipur).[3]
1918 Operating lines of 2,043 miles of which 1,242 belong to the company and 801 to the state. There are 25 miles under construction for the state. Officers: Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, Consulting Engineers; J. Walker, Agent; A. W. C. Addis (Gorakhpur), Acting Chief Engineer; J. R. Silver (Gorakhpur) Officiating Locomotive and Carriage Superintendent.[4]
1943 The Bengal and North Western Railway was merged into the Oudh and Tirhut Railway on 1 January 1943.