As Ian Kerr was teaching History at the University of Manitoba when he wrote "Building the Railways of the Raj 1850-1900", it is perhaps ironic that you cannot obtain a copy in Canada! :-( Copies are readily available in the UK via the public Inter-Library loan system and they also appear on Abebooks.com and eBay. Don't spend $40+ - I got my personal hardback copy last October for £10.48 inclusive of p&p. Kerr is also the author of "Engines of Change : the railroads that made India" (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007) and the compiler of "Railways of Modern India" (Delhi: OUP, 2001) and "27 Down : new departures in Indian railway studies) (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007). All are excellent but pricey - if you are prepared to be patient, then you will be able to make useful savings. Be aware that there is not much genealogical information but Kerr writes well about his subject and includes lots of detail to help understand the whys and wherefores. There is an added bonus about being published in India in that a scan of BTROTR appears in Google Books. Here in the UK we can only get a snippet view but in Canada you may be able to get the full caboodle - it is worth trying. I mention this because I searched Google Books for "Lee Watson Aiton railway contractor" and got a hit on p57 of BTROTR. The context is that of the building of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) which was accomplished in a series of large contracts, several of which resulted in the business failure of the contractors involved. "...George Wythes and Co. took over the contract [#15 for the 138 miles of line from Bhusawal to Harda] in March 1862 and eventually brought it to completion, though not without frequent complaints about their slow progress. Joseph Bray, Wythes and Jackson, Hood, Watson and Mills, Lee, Watson and Aiton, and Norris and Weller were among others who took substantial contracts with greater or lesser degrees of success." Kerr has a reference to this - "Herapath's Railway Journal", 26 April 1862, p438. If you have searched Google Books on the "Lee...contractor" then one of the hits will be for PROGRESS REPORT OF FOREST ADMINISTRATION IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCES 1863-64 By CAPTAIN G. F. PEARSON. Double click on the hit and then search within this book for "Whittaker". I got three hits - pp24, 68 and 102 - describing the work of "Mr Whittaker" in cutting down some 30,000 teak trees and supplying 25,000 sleepers to the Nagpur branch of the GIPR. As I noted other Forestry Reports, you may well find further references elsewhere - I think this is what they call a result! Hugh Wilding