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The '''Lahore & Peshawar Railway''' in the Punjab was first surveyed in 1857-58 by deployment of a team of Engineers from the [[Sind Railway ]] Company <ref> Z/E/4/31/R127; “Railways, Engineers, Sind Railway Company, Lately employed on surveys of Moultan and Amritzar to be employed to survey country between Lahore and Peshawar”; 1857-1858</ref><ref> Z/E/4/31/S404; “Sind Railway Company, Recommended employment of certain engineers to survey country between Lahore and Peshawar”; 1857-1858</ref>. The construction did not proceed and years of political and military debate followed.

from Cranbourne to Lawrence carries the following IOR Contents note:- ''“.'..proposes to suspend work on Peshawar barracks, pending construction of Lahore-Peshawar railway, and in view of unhealthiness of area, cost, and uncertainty regarding number of troops required to be stationed there; asks whether Peshawar valley could be held with native troops in ordinary times; Council divided whether railway should be built by Govt or Guaranteed Company;...”' ''

Following further exchanges, the line was constructed by the of Government of India([[Government of India]](GoI). The [[Punjab Northern State Railway]](PNSR) was created in 1870-71 to construct and operate the railway from Lahore to Peshawar.  Several major bridges required construction to complete the PNSR line between from [[Lahore]] to and [[Peshawar]] was finally :-*[[Jhelum Bridge]], over the River Jhelum at Jelum, started in 1871 by the British engineer [[William St. John Galwey]] and opened in 1873 *[[Alexandra Bridge]], over the River Chenab between Wazirabad and Gujraat Pakistan. Construction started in 1871; Engineer-in-Charge [[Francis Joseph Edward Spring]] and opened 1876 by Edward VII the King-Emperor when he was Prince of Wales.*[[Ravi Bridge]], over the River Ravi situated between Sadiq Pura, Lahore and Shahdara Bagh. The construction work on this bridge was started in 1871; Engineer-in-Charge [[Francis Joseph Edward Spring]] and completed in 1876.*[[Attock Bridge]], over in River Indus. Construction started 1880; Chief Engineer was [[Francis Langford O'Callaghan]]; completed 1883.  The section from [[Jhelum]] to [[Rawalpindi]] , 76 miles(122km), opened 1873 as a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line. This was converted to MG, converted to broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) in 1878 <ref name=Admin1918>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n115/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 106 (pdf115)]; Retrieved named 28 Dec 2016</ref>. The BG line from [[Lahore]] to [[Jhelum]], 103 miles(166km), opened 1878, thus taking the BG line north-eastward to [[Rawalpindi]] and reaching the Indus river in 1881. The line from [[Peshawar]] had reached the left bank of Kiarabad on the left bank of the Indus river in May 1882<ref name=Admin1918/>. [[Lahore]] and [[Peshawar]] , 468 miles(753 km), were finally connected in 1883 <ref name=Admin1918/> with the completion of the [[Attock Bridge]] over River Indus and became the '''[[Punjab Northern State Railway]]''' and (PNSR). The PNSR was transferred to the newly formed [[Railway Board]], becoming the first railway in India to have been taken be nationalised the under GOI the controlof the Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]]). Shortly after, on 1 Jan 1886, the [[North Western Railway]] (NWR) was formed from the amalgamation of the PNSR with others.

See '''[[Punjab Northern State Railway]] ''' for information from 18781868-86.and '''[[North Western Railway]]''' from 1886