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The '''Kalighat-Falta Railway''' (KFR) was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge ([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) line, built and operated as part of [[McLeod's Light Railways]], opening to traffic on 28 May 1917.The line was 25 miles (40km) in length and connected [[Kalighat]] to [[Falta]]<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 232]; Retrieved 18 Dec 2015</ref>
Sometime between 1955 and 1957, the KFR was closed and the track abandoned. The trackbed has since been used in the construction of a new road.
A surviving member of a small class of 2-6-2T locomotives, built by W G Bagnall at Stafford, England, designated AK16, was acquired by the Phyllis Rampton Narrow Gauge Trust and is now in storage in the UK awaiting restoration.
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