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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]].
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| 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>.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogalhat_railway_station Wikipedia "Mogalhat Railway Station"]; Retrieved 4 Mar 2016</ref>
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| <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitaldaha_railway_station Wikipedia "Gitaldaha Railway Station"]; Retrieved 4 Mar 20165</ref>
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