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1918 Admin Report details checked/added/corrected
The [[Hoshiarpur Doab Railway]] was a private company (The Hoshiarpur-Doab Branch Railway Company), that opened a series of railway lines from 1912 through to 1920. All these lines were worked by [[North Western Railway]](NWR)
<ref name=name>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 111 ]; Retrieved 18 Dec 2015</ref>
<ref>[http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Bengal_and_Assam_Behar_and_Orissa_1000568138/205 Forgotten Books "Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: Their History" ... p.204-5.]; Retrieved 11 Dec 2015</ref>
* '''Jullundur-Doab Railway''', opened 1912. Apparently this railway could have originally been been part of Southern Punjab Railway(SPR) and then renamed to form the Hoshiarpur Doab Railway
* '''Jullundur-Mukerian Railway''', metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]), 44 miles (70km), opened 1914-15. Part of Jullundur-Doab Railway; which was renamed Hoshiarpur Doab Railway<ref name=name/>
* '''Jullundur-Nakodar Chord Railway''', opened after 1914. Part of Jullundur-Doab Railway); renamed Hoshiarpur Doab Railway
* '''Phagwara-Rahoa(Rahon) Railway''',metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]), 25 miles (40km), opened 1915-16 as part of Hoshiarpur Doab Railway Railwayand extended in 1917 by a further 10 miles (16km).<ref name=name/>
* '''Jaijon Extension Railway''', opened before 1920 as part of Hoshiarpur Doab Railway
