CHAPTER I

EVOLUTION OF INDIAN RAILWAYS-HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

101-103 Commencement of Railways
104-107 Early Railway Companies
108 Government ownership of Railways
109 Company management of Government Railways
110 Taking over of Company Railways by Government
111 Effect of Partition
112 Taking over of the ex-States Railways
113 Regrouping of Railways
114 Formation of new Zonal Administrative Units
115 Route Kilometrages of Zones
116 Categories of existing Indian Railways
117 Administrative control of Government over Company Railways
118 Features of contracts with Companies
119 State Government and District Board Railways
120 The Indian Railways Act
121-122 Definition of Railway
123 Ownership of Railway Property
124-126 Taxation of Railway Property