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'''Canning Branch Railway''' | '''Canning Branch Railway''' | ||
Originally part of the [[Calcutta and South Eastern Railway]], a private Company that was taken into Government ownershgip in 1868. | |||
The line was constructed in 1862-63 to handle traffic from the opening of [[Port Canning]] as an auxiliary harbour to [[Calcutta]], but the failure of Port Canning involved the railway in its ruin. | |||
The railway was absorbed into [[East Bengal Railway]](EBR) becoming the '''Canning Branch Railway'''. | |||
==External Link== | |||
*[https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=8172681933 Bengal District Gazetteers: 24-Parganas. Page 167 by Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley,I.C.S.] | |||
[[Category:Railways]] | [[Category:Railways]] | ||
[[Category:State Railways]] | [[Category:State Railways]] | ||
Revision as of 09:35, 14 November 2015
Canning Branch Railway
Originally part of the Calcutta and South Eastern Railway, a private Company that was taken into Government ownershgip in 1868.
The line was constructed in 1862-63 to handle traffic from the opening of Port Canning as an auxiliary harbour to Calcutta, but the failure of Port Canning involved the railway in its ruin.
The railway was absorbed into East Bengal Railway(EBR) becoming the Canning Branch Railway.