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<big>'''Dacca-Aricha Railway Project'''</big>

There was a proposal to provide a through route to Eastern Bengal by upgrading the [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) ‘[[Goalundo Branch Railway]]', crossing the Ganges River by Steamer and constructing a railway from Aricha, on the eastern bank of the Ganges to [[Dacca]].

This project was abandoned in 1935 <ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=O2-eHnajWxIC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books 'Our Indian Railway: Themes in India's Railway History' edited by Roopa Srinivasan, Manish Tiwari, Sandeep Silas Page 180]; Retrieved 22 Jul 2020</ref><ref>[http://hdl.handle.net/10973/18160 “Report by the Railway Board on Indian Railways for 1936-37. Vol. I; Railway Department, Government of India” Para 43 (i), page 42 pdf 57]; Retrieved 22 Jul 2020</ref>. 

==Comment==
the '[[Goalundo-Narayanganj Extension Railway Survey]]'  had been undertaken by the [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) during the period 1894-98. The record states “the object of connecting Calcutta with the Assam-Bengal Railway”. The line was not constructed and is a previous failure to provide a connection to East Bengal

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