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'''Noamundi Iron Mine Railway'''

'Tata Iron and Steel Company' discovered iron ore at Noamundi <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noamundi Wikipedia "Noamundi"]; Retrieved  20 Feb 2017</ref> in 1917 with the first despatches being sent out  by the rail in 1925 <ref name =darvill>“Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compliled 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 JH47 page ....</ref> by the connection to the [[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]](BNR) 'Tatanager-Bilaspur Section'. 

A 2ft/610mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway transported ore to a crushing and loading plant. Here the ore was loaded into broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) mainline wagons and sent to [[Jamshedpur Steel Works Railway|Tata's Jamshedpur Steel Works]]. The loading plant is on a two mile(3.2km) siding west of Noamundi station <ref name =darvill/>.

It is unknown if the 2ft 0in [[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]] system is still in use <ref name =darvill/>.

Two metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) locomotives dating from 1941 being on the site <ref name =darvill/>. ''The reason for this unknown as BG was the gauge of the BNR system linking the two Tata operations.''  

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