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The '''Lalmonirhat-Gitaldaha (Geetaldaha) Railway''' was a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line constructed by the [[Cooch Behar State Railway]](CBSR) to connect [[Gitaldaha]](also spelled Geetaldaha)  to the  [[Bengal Dooars Railway]](BDR) at [[Lalmonirhat]]. 
#Redirect [[Lalmanir Hat- Gitaldaha Railway]]
 
The MG railway opened c.1900 and was initially worked by CBSR; they operated a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway  north from its junction with the MG  [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) at [[Gitaldaha]] to [[Cooch Behar]] and on to [[Jainti]] in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. In 1910 the CBSR railway was converted to MG  <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n57/mode/2up  " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government  Printing,  Calcutta;  page 49]; Retrieved 4 Mar 2016</ref>.
 
From 1910 the working of the '''Lalmonirhat-Gitaldaha (Geetaldaha) Railway'''  was passed to the [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) which they operated as part of their MG network together with the CBSR following its conversion to MG.
 
With partition in 1947 the railway was severed with the closure of the Dadla River bridge and the lines terminated at [[Gitaldaha]]  in India and Mogalhat in [[Lalmonirhat]] District on the E.Pakistan/Bangladesh side.
<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogalhat_railway_station Wikipedia "Mogalhat Railway Station"]; Retrieved 4 Mar 2016</ref>
<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitaldaha_railway_station Wikipedia "Gitaldaha Railway Station"]; Retrieved 4 Mar 20165</ref>
 
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