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'''Bilaspur-Etawa Provincial State Railway'''
The '''Bilaspur-Etawa Provincial State Railway''' was a section of [[Katni]] to [[Umaria]] of 37 miles (59km) was built in 1886 and called [[Katni-Umaria Provincial State Railway]] which was absorbed by the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway]](BNR) on 1st January 1888.


Opened 1886-87
This section was incorporated in BNR’s  Katni branch when the line from [[Bilaspur]] to [[Katni]] of about 200 miles (320km) was completed in 1891. The line in 1901 was connected with Murwara Junction of [[Great India Peninsula Railway]](GIPR) about half a mile further up from Katni. With  this extension the  railway track from Bilaspur was connected to [[Etawa]]  and as such this line came to be known by name of '''Bilaspur-Etawa Provincial State Railway'''.
<ref>[https://indianrailwaynotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/south-eastern-railway.pdf Keith Scholey "South Eastern Railway Indian Railway Notes" Footnote 12];Retrieved  10 Dec 2015</ref>


Re-named Katni-Umaria Provincial State(qv), c1887; then absorbed by BNR(qv), 1888
==External Links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutch_Gurjar_Kshatriyas_contributions_to_the_Indian_railways "KGK Contributions to the Indian Railways" 1890-1900 Para 3] Wikipedia


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==Further Information==
See '''[[Bengal Nagpur Railway]]'''
 
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 09:55, 7 February 2016

The Bilaspur-Etawa Provincial State Railway was a section of Katni to Umaria of 37 miles (59km) was built in 1886 and called Katni-Umaria Provincial State Railway which was absorbed by the Bengal Nagpur Railway(BNR) on 1st January 1888.

This section was incorporated in BNR’s Katni branch when the line from Bilaspur to Katni of about 200 miles (320km) was completed in 1891. The line in 1901 was connected with Murwara Junction of Great India Peninsula Railway(GIPR) about half a mile further up from Katni. With this extension the railway track from Bilaspur was connected to Etawa and as such this line came to be known by name of Bilaspur-Etawa Provincial State Railway. [1]

External Links

Further Information

See Bengal Nagpur Railway

References