Jamalpur railway workshop, one of the oldest workshops of railways in the country, has bagged a prestigious contract worth Rs 129.13 crore from Container Corporation of India ( Concor) to manufacture 675 bogie low container (BLC)-type wagons.

According to chief workshop manager, Jamalpur Workshop, Anismesh Kumar Sinha, the BCL wagons are in demand for container services across the country.

These wagons are ideal for carrying freight safely from one place to another. These are being used for ‘international multimodal transport’ at dry ports like the one at Tughlaqabad near Delhi, he said, adding these wagons are a prerequisite for any dry port to transport any consignment through containers.

Sinha said that greatest advantage of these wagons is that they can run at 100km per hour on the existing tracks. “Jamalpur railway workshop has got this prestigious contract mainly due to its quality work as well as time-bound delivery of products ordered with it,” he said.

According to sources, the Jamalpur workshop has been manufacturing these wagons at a low cost compared to private manufacturers. It has been using sophisticated robotic and computerized machines for manufacturing the wagons, sources said, adding this is the biggest order ever bagged by the workshop for manufacturing BLC type wagons.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Jamalpur-workshop-bags-Rs-129-crore-contract/articleshow/12899239.cms

Famous throughout India is the ‘Sholay tunnel’ , a tunnel where , you guessed it, a scene in the megabuster SHOLAY was shot . Immortal also are actor Sanjeev Kumar’s words- “jab main Jamalpur main inspector tha…”.

The Death Valley gets its name after a group of soldiers disappeared in the area. Nobody knows what happened to them.

Baba used to spend a lot of time here, particularly meditating under the Tamarind Tree.

In a lonely field on the outskirts of Jamalpur – a small town, insignificant but for the presence of its railway workshop – lies the Tiger’s Grave. A few feet away rests the grave of the Englishman – the soldier who shot the tiger and was, in turn, fatally injured by the beast.

The field was later cleared and prepared as a golf course, for the frivolities of the ruling British, but the project was abandoned and never completed.

In this lonely field, in the dead of night, Tiger’s Grave became the chosen spot for many sittings with spiritual master Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (known also by the spiritual name, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti).

He gave lessons and demonstrations of mysticism and meditation to small groups of spiritual practitioners. He dictated many books and scriptures by the light of a lantern. Such seminal works as Ananda Sutram, Guide to Human Conduct and Elementary Philosophy were given here.

Spiritual aspirants still come from around the world to see and meditate on the grave – much to the bewilderment of many locals, who have but the slightest idea of the incredible spiritual heritage that was born in their homeland.

Jamalpur, Bihar state, India

Another, possibly apocryphal account, though, has it that one of the Agents of the EIR Mr D W Campbell, was annoyed that the fitters and workmen of the then Howrah workshop were spending too much time away from their work in places of recreation in Howrah, and resolved to move the workshop facilities to a place far away where there would be no such distractions.

At first the Jamalpur shops were merely repairing locomotives and also assembling locomotives from parts salvaged from other, damaged locomotives. By the turn of the century, however, they had progressed to producing their own locomotives. The first one, CA 764 ‘Lady Curzon’, was produced in 1899.

Jamalpur has always had extensive workshop facilities. In 1893, the first railway foundry in India was set up there. It also had a boiler workshop for repairing and building boilers. Today it has foundry and metallurgical lab facilities, extensive machine tool facilities, etc., in addition a captive power plant of 5MVA, making it fairly self-contained. It used to have a rolling mill of its own (set up in 1870, now closed – the Rolling Mill and the Nut & Bolt Shop were closed down in 1984).

In addition to various repairs of wagons, coaches, cranes and tower cars, and locomotives, Jamalpur Workshop also undertakes repair and (small-scale) production of permanent-way fixtures. It also manufactures some tower cars (Mark II, Mark III) and break-down cranes of 10, 20, and 140 tonne capacities, besides various kinds of heavy-duty lifting jacks.

Finally, it also manufactures wheelsets for coaches and wagons. In the past it was a significant supplier of cast-iron sleepers as well. Starting in 1961 it produced several rail cranes. It has also produced electric arc furnaces, ticket printers and other ticket machines (slitting, counting, and chopping). The high-capacity synchronized lifting jacks known as ‘Jamalpur Jacks’ were also produced by this workshop.

The school attached to the Jamalpur workshops eventually became the IR Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

Jamalpur Workshop (History)

Special Class Railway Apprentices (SCRA)

Kendriya Vidyalaya Jamalpur

Notre Dame Academy Jamalpur

Railway high school, Jamalpur

Ananda Marga School, Jamalpur

The mission of Ananda Marga is to help individuals achieve complete self-realization and to build a social structure in which the physical, mental and spiritual needs of all people can be fulfilled. Ananda Marga contributes to the process of individual development by providing instruction in meditation and other yoga practices on a non-commercial basis.

There used to be a small shop selling sweet meats like jalebis which was a half a century old. Currently to cater to the south indian culinary afficionados the Madras Coffee House is in full swing. Does not have much to describe but does have a small accommodation for two people and has a basic telephone booth. Not intended for soft tourists this place is more for people who have come to visit Jamalpur for railways or other nostalgic purposes.

Wight House Residency A new fully furnished(AC and Non AC accommodation) Hotel and Resto-Bar at Jubilee Well Jamalpur.

Lounges Inn It is also a full furnished Living accommodation and Resto-Bar at Jubilee Well Jamalpur.

Hotel Yatrik

This is a very famous hotel at Jamalpur (west). It has a very good living & dining accommodation for the visitors.