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'''Sutlej Valley Railway'''
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The [[Sutlej Valley Railway]] was opened in 1910 as part of Sutlej Valley Irrigation project. The line was constructed and worked by [[Southern Punjab Railway]]
  
Constructed as part of Sutlej Valley Irrigation project; merged into SPR(qv), 1917-18; some evidence that line then dismantled
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The [[Kasur-Lodhran Railway]] section - ‘However from 1914 onwards, owing to the First World War, which caused financial strigencyt, developments of railways stagnated....in order to meet the necessities of the military authorities the Sutlej Valley Railway, from [[Kasur]] to [[Lodharan]], with 208 miles of track, was dismantled in 1917.<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L1RGX3whGEIC&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=Sutlej+Valley+Railway&source=bl&ots=OTgfyY8yx5&sig=MIqEW4D7w7kbSYsL28yzUNbav6w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Vzw-VfKmE9SM7AaNloAI&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=snippet&q=Sutlej%20Valley%20%20&f=false Google Books "Punjab, the Crucial Decade (1911-1920)" by Subash Chander Sharma; page 81]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref>
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<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TPB5RTODBJAC&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=Sutlej+Valley+Railway&source=bl&ots=6f707jWIAy&sig=yO_2ojIxGimO4WvebISn8nmDkeU&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrqeXSiMfJAhXEPBQKHSKODbwQ6AEIWDAJ#v=onepage&q=Sutlej%20Valley%20Railway&f=false Google Books "India's Railway History: A Research Handbook" by John Hurd II,Ian J. Kerr ; page 190 footnote 13]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref>
  
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Latest revision as of 06:40, 8 April 2016

The Sutlej Valley Railway was opened in 1910 as part of Sutlej Valley Irrigation project. The line was constructed and worked by Southern Punjab Railway

The Kasur-Lodhran Railway section - ‘However from 1914 onwards, owing to the First World War, which caused financial strigencyt, developments of railways stagnated....in order to meet the necessities of the military authorities the Sutlej Valley Railway, from Kasur to Lodharan, with 208 miles of track, was dismantled in 1917.[1] [2]

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