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[[Category:Railways]]
{{Infobox_Railways
|image=Eir_device.gif|caption=East Indian Railway device|description= [[Calcutta]] to [[Delhi]], branch [[Allahabad]] to [[AllahabadJubbulpore]]
|date1= '''1845'''
|date1details=incorporatedFormed
|date2='''1854'''
|date2details= first First train runs, [[Howrah]] to [[Hooghly]]
|date3='''1871'''
|date3details= connects Connects with GIP[[GIPR]] at [[Jubbulpore]]|date4='''18791880'''|date4details= Taken into state ownership
|date5='''1925'''
|date5details=nationalisationNationalised|company1='''18841889'''|company1details= Borneo State Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway|company2='''1912'''|company2details= Andaman Island South Behar Railway
|company3=
|company3details= Tarkessur Railway
|company4=
|company4details=
|headquarters= [[Calcutta]]
|workshop= [[JamalporeJamalpur]], Swindon[[Liluah]]|stations= [[Allahabad]], [[Benares]], [[Howrah]], [[HoogleyHooghly]], [[AllahabadJubbulpore]], [[JubbulpurPatna]]|successor1= 1951'''1947'''|successor1details= Eastern Railway of Division, Indian Railways|successor2= '''1952'''|successor2details= split between Eastern & Northern Railways (zones of Indian Railways)
|successor3=
|successor4details=
|gauge1= '''Broadgauge'''|gauge1details= 1261 2225 miles(1905)|gauge2= '''Metregauge'''
|gauge2details= 119 miles
|gauge3=
