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The Jammu–Sialkot Railway was a 27 mile(43 km) 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) branch of the North Western Railway(NWR) from Wazirabad, Punjab, to Jammu through Sialkot. [1]
The railway was built in 1897, and was the first railway line in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Whilst once a crucial transportation route used for trade and commerce, particularly in the sugar trade, it was abandoned after the partition of India, with a replacement line built from Pathankot to Jammu. [1]
Records
An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [2] gives the following:-
- R/2/1061/5; “File No.54 of 1888. Railway from Sialkot to Jammu”; 1888
This record has not been examined and may add or corroborate the information given above.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wikipedia “Jammu Sialkot Line”; Retrieved on 13 Apr 2016
- ↑ “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search; Retrieved 12 Apr 2016