East Indian Railway: 1906 History of the EIR - Preface
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The History of the East Indian Railway by George Huddleston. Published 1906 by Tracker, Spins and Co
PREFACE.
IT is not everyone who realizes what a great undertaking the East Indian Railway is, or what it has done and is doing for the people and the trade of India and particularly of Calcutta. Yet the author hardly ventures to expect that this endeavour, to outline the more important events in its history, will prove attractive to the general reader, or help him to an appreciation of the facts.
It is chiefly for those who are or have been associated with or employed on the East Indian Rail way that this book has been written, and if these, as well as those who enter its service in the future, find something in its pages to interest them, the writer will be rewarded.
The author would only add that in attempting the work he has been prompted by a feeling that unless something was done now, to place on record facts which are so, easily forgotten and so soon buried in oblivion, the opportunity would be lost. No one can be more conscious than he is of the many defects and imperfections of his effort, and had anyone else evinced a desire to undertake the task, he would not have set it himself.
In saying this he hopes it will be distinctly understood that the production is on no sense official and no one but the author is in any way responsible for it.
His thanks are due to Mr. H. Wood, Secretary to the Agent in Calcutta, to whom he is indebted for the two chapters on the Provident Fund and the Hill School; to Mr. P. A. M. Nash, District Locomotive Superintendent, who kindly furnished the account of the Jamalpur workshops; to Mr. John Strachan, late Locomotive Superintendent, and to other friends whose assistance is acknowledged in the pages of the book.
CALCUTTA, May 1906. G. HUDDLESTON.
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