Editing Rail transport in India (section)

==== Indian Railway Classification ====
Beginning in 1926 and for statistical purposes, the Government of [[British Raj]] classified Indian railway systems according to three classes.  It was a similar system to the [[Railroad classes]] in North America.<ref name="fibis">{{cite web|url=https://wiki.fibis.org/w/Indian_Railway_Classification |title=Indian Railway Classification |publisher=fibis |access-date=21 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Directory of Railway Officials & Yearbook |year=1947| publisher=Tothill Press |language=English |pages=495}}</ref>
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| '''''Class I''''' || Railways with gross annual earnings of over 5,000,000 [[Indian rupee|INR]]
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| '''''Class II''''' || Railways with gross annual earnings of between 1,000,000 and 5,000,000 INR 
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| '''''Class III''''' || Railways with gross annual earnings of under 1,000,000 INR 
|}
[[Tram]]s, [[Industrial railway|industrial]] and port railways were recorded separately and independently of turnover.
In terms of net revenue, [[East Indian Railway Company|East Indian Railway]] was the largest company in 1927 with 86,881,000 rupees. Followed by the [[North Western State Railway]] with 57,343,000 rupees and the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] with 56,215,000 rupees.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Commerce Reports, Vol. 2, Nr. 25 |publisher=United States Department of Commerce |date=4 June 1929 |pages=792 |language=en |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KfzWpgNQNMsC&pg=PA792}}</ref> No further reclassification was carried out after 1942, but the rankings remained in use until the mid-1950s.<ref name="fibis" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Indian Railways One Hundred Years |publisher=Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) |date=1953 |pages=162 |url=https://archive.org/details/ncd.indianrailwayson0000jnsa/page/162/}}</ref>