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'''Dandot Light Railway''' was a short 2ft/610mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) integrated system incorporating an incline, built to connect the 'Dandot Colliery' , in the [[Jhelum District]], to the [[North Western Railway]](NWR) network by way of the 'Dandot Branch Line'.
'''Dandot Colliery''' was owned by and supplied coal to the [[North Western Railway]](NWR) and opened in 1894. The other collieries supplying NWR were the [[Sharigh Colliery]], the [[Khost Colliery Tramway|Khost Colliery ]] <ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=q4SlCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA281#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books'The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise' by Kartar Lalvani; page 281]; Retrieved 24 Nov 2017</ref> and the [[Bhaganwala Colliery Railway|Bhaganwala Colliery]] <ref name =PP14>“Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compiled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entry PP14 page ....</ref>.
