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The '''Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway'''(DKR) Company was formed in 1889. The broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line ran north from [[Delhi]] via [[Umballa]]+(Ambala) to Kalka in the Himalayan foothills where it joined the [[Kalka-Simla Railway]].
<ref>[http:name=name//discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/d2cc94a1-245a-4594-b7e3-ba22bf6a8cf7 National Archives "Records of the Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway Company" IOR/L/AG/46/9]; Retrieved 10 Dec 2015</ref>
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n68/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 60]; Retrieved 2 Feb 2016</ref>
The line was worked by the [[East Indian Railway]](EIR) and taken over by the Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]]) in 1925.
An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway
<refname=name>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 British Library “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 20 Jan 2016</ref> gives 23 references. The most important being:-
*'''L/F/8/13/945/1 ''' “Delhi Umballa Kalka Railway Company Limited, Contract for the construction of the Delhi Umballa Kalka Railway; 1889”
*'''L/AG/46/9''' “Records of the Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway Company; 1898-1907”
*'''L/AG/46/29 ''' “Records of the India Office relating to the Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway; 1889-1926”
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