THE BRITISH OVERSEAS RAILWAYS HISTORICAL TRUST
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Indian Railways Study Group
Listing of archives held by the
British Overseas Railways Historical Trust
The Indian Railways Study Group was run by Kelvin White in 1991-3. When his work prevented Mr White from continuing and nobody else volunteered to run the Group, it was closed down and its archives deposited with BORHT.
Copies of the documents listed here are available from the contact address below.
NEWS LETTERS
The following table is a summary listing.
A full 6 page index to the News Letters is available from address at the bottom of this page.
In the following table, correspondence is used as a general term to cover editorial, correspondence, book reviews, requests for information and general updates on what was happening. All articles are by Kelvin White unless otherwise stated.
| Newsletter No | Date | Contents | Author | No. of pages |
| No.1 | April 1991 | General introduction to IRSG, aims etc, | Kelvin White | 4 |
| No. 2 | July 1991 | Introduction to datasheets,
Madhavrao Scindia, Maharaja of Gwalior, correspondence IR videos Baroda Railcars Memories of travel GIPR Coach Kelland collection photos |
KW
Extract from
JC Williams |
2
1
5 1 1 1 1 2 |
| No.3 | October 1991 | Palace on Wheels
Notes on research India Office records Correspondence |
Ray Ellis
Ken Walker Hugh Hughes
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7 4 2 3 |
| No. 4 | Jan 1992 | Modelling gauges
Steam in garden Bengal 2-4-0T Indian Railways today Bengal & Nagpur Sentinel Railcars Correspondence |
1
3 6 1 2 7 |
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| No. 5 | April 1992 | South American Connection
Patiala State Monorail Early diesels on the North Western Correspondence |
1
4 2 11 |
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| No. 6 | July 1992 | Manoharpur
Rolling stock of the Darjeeling Matheran railcars Correspondence |
Hugh Hughes | 1
7 2 6 |
| No. 7 | October 1992 | Correspondence
Darjeeling stn diagram Indian Diesel and Electrics South American Connection Pt2 North Western Bo-Bo a postscript Tata Industrial Shunters Tourist Cars WCAM-1 Co-Co Electric |
Ranjeev Dubey J.E Daboo
Hugh Hughes Hugh Hughes Manish Karnik |
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1 13 2 1 3 4 2 |
| No. 8 | January 1993 | Correspondence
The Arakan Light Railway Kelani Valley Railway, drawings loco and rolling stock Sri Lankan Sentinels Kelani Line |
Kelvin Parkes
Geoff Thorne?
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2
7 5 2 2 |
| No. 9 | April 1993 | Correspondence
34’ 6" NG Coaching stock |
K.J. Walker | 2
16 |
| No. 10 | July 1993 | Correspondence
Matheran Light Railway South Indian Railway Tourist Carriages The first Gwalior Steam Railcar Banglaore-Baangarapet Morvi Rly carriage diagrams Met-Cammell Collection Photos of NG carriages |
J.E. Daboo
Kelvin White and Andrew Lamin
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3 1 2 4 3 1 3 |
DATA SHEETS
The following datasheets were also issued. The ones that refer to magazines give data page number and a very brief description of the item.
| Magazine and date | Number of pages |
| Railway Magazine 1914-23 | 3 |
| Railway Magazine 1924-49 | 7 |
| Railway Magazine 1950-59 | 2 |
| Railway Magazine 1960-69 | 2 |
| Indian Bibliography pre1900-1990s | 4 |
| Indian Bibliography pre1900-1990s (supplement) | 3 |
| Continental Modeller | 2 |
| Darjeeling Himalayan Railway | 3 |
| European Magazine References | 2 |
| BBCI 1905 diagram book listing | 4 |
| Ceylon Government Railway 1964 loco list | 2 |
| Locomotive Magazine 1896-1906 | 2 |
| Locomotive Magazine 1907-1910 | 2 |
| Locomotive Magazine 1911-1914 | 2 |
| Locomotive Magazine 1930-1932 | 3 |
| Locomotive Magazine 1903-1942 (supplement) | 1 |
| Railway Gazette 1906-1907 | 1 |
NEWS LETTER SUPPLEMENTS
Reprints of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Among the Railway Folk’ were also sent out, 14 pages in all.
Railway Films of the Raj by Ray Ellis 6 pages
CONTACT
Any enquiries related to this archive should be addressed to
Edwin Lambert
Sgubor Degwm
Glyn Ceiriog
Llangollen
LL20 7EE
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