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'''Helsa-Chandil Railway''', also known as the ''' Barkakhana-Chandil Railway'''
[[File:Helsa-Chandil Railway.png|thumb|Helsa-Chandil Railway]]
The 1924 Administration Report for Railway <ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.85763/page/n51 ‘1924 Administration Report for Railways, page 34 (pdf51]; Retrieved 11 May 2019</ref> gives the following :-
<blockquote>“This line starts from Hesla (now Barkakhana, the terminus of the South Karanpura Railway) and joins the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway]] main line at Chandil on the [[Purulia]]-[[Sini]] section. The object of the line is to afford an 
alternative outlet to the south for coal from [[Bokaro Ramgarh Coalfields Railways|West Bokharo]]  and the [[Karanpura Coalfields Railways|South Karanpura coalfields]]. The line will be about 76 miles long and by the end of the year about 55%, of the work had been completed on the first 36-44 miles and about 42% on the remaining portion” </blockquote>

The line became part of the [[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]](BNR) broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) network linking to the [[East Indian Railway]](EIR) as can be seen from the 1931 Map. 

==See Also ==
* '''[[Bokaro Ramgarh Coalfields Railways]]'''
* '''[[Karanpura Coalfields Railways]]'''
* '''[[Bengal-Nagpur Railway - Lines Owned and Worked]]'''
 
== References ==
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