Title
Letter to the Directors of the Scinde Railway Company
Reference
SCIN/1/3
Production date
22-06-1869 - 22-06-1869
Creator
- Scinde Railway CompanyBiographyBiography
The Scinde Railway Company was a railway company established in 1854 in what is now Pakistan. The line initially stretched from Karachi to Kotreem until 1857 when the constitution of the company was modified and contracts were made for the construction of another section of the line from Multan to Amritsar in the Punjab. Contracts were also made for working a Steam Flotilla on the Indus connecting the Scinde and Punjab sections. The company constructed a further line connecting Delhi and Amritsar. The four sections of the railway were at first kept separate and distinct under the names of the Scinde Railway, Indus Flotilla Company, Punjab Railway and Delhi Railway, although conducted through the agency of one company. In 1869 the three railway sections were amalgamated into the Scinde Punjab and Delhi Railway.
In 1886 the state acquired and merged the Scinde, Punjab and Delhi Railway, Punjab Northern Railway, Indus Valley State Railway, eastern section of Sind-Sagar Railway, southern section of Sind Pishin Railway, and Kandhar State Railway. The whole system was brought under direct state management under name North Western State Railway, later renamed as the North Western Railway (NWR).
- Bowden, Robert J.BiographyBiography
Robert J. Bowden acted for the executers of the late Benjamin Goodfellow (1811-1863) of the Goodfellow and Matthews company (late B. Goodfellow and Co.) and signed documents on his behalf concerning Scinde Railway Company in 1869.
Scope and Content
Hand-written letter to directors of Scinde Railway Company (Punjab and Dehli Railway), by Robert Bowden on behalf of the executer of the late Benjamin Goodfellow of the Goodfellow and Matthews company. Includes mentions of 'alternative arrangement' and 'vertical engine'. Two pages.
Extent
1 item
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
National Railway Museum, York
Associated people and organisations
- Goodfellow & MatthewsBiographyBiography
Engineer based in Hyde, Manchester. Known to have been active in 1885.
- Goodfellow, BenjaminBiographyBiography
Benjamin Goodfellow (1811-1863), mechanic and manufacturer, was born in 1811 at Rainow near Macclesfield. He began to work in a silk mill at the age of six years. After moving with his parents to Hyde, near Manchester, he worked at the Carrfield Mills, Floweryfield and was employed there as a mechanic upon the various machines used in spinning and weaving cotton until 1838.
In early 1840s he established B. Goodfellow and Co. works for the manufacturing of the steam-engine piston and general engineering work. In 1888 the company presumably changed its name to Goodfellow and Matthews. Goodfellow's arrangements of compound steam engines for economising fuel were largely adopted in the cotton manufacturing districts and he was one of the original members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers from its commencement in 1847. Benjamin Goodfellow died at the age of 52 on 29th April 1863.
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