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|image= Bnr.jpg
|caption= ''Bengal-Nagpur Railway device''
|route= [[Calcutta]] to [[Nagpur]] to ([[AsansolBombay]])<br>[[Calcutta]] to [[VizagapatamWaltair]] ([[Madras]])<br>[[Bilaspur]] to [[Katni]]
|gauge1= Broad gauge
|gauge1details= 1696 miles (1905)
|company12details=
|headquarters= [[Calcutta]]
|workshop= [[KharagpurKhargpur]]
|stations= [[Asansol]], [[Balasore]], [[Bilaspur]], [[Chanda]], [[Chhindwara]], [[Cuttack]], [[Jubbulpore]], [[Mandla]], [[Nagpur]], [[Raipur]], [[Sambalpur]], [[Vizagapattam]]
|system1date= 1952
|system3details=
|gauge1= Broad gauge
|gauge1details= 1696 miles (1905)<br>2498 miles (1943)
|gauge2= Narrow (2' 6") gauge
|gauge2details= 343 miles (1905)<br>798 miles (1943)
|gauge3=
|gauge3details=
}}
The '''Bengal-Nagpur Railway''' (BNR) was formed in 1887 to take over the metre gauge [[Nagpur-Chhattisgarh Railway]], to convert the existing metre gauge track to broad gauge and to extend the system eastwards to join the [[East Indian Railway ]] at Asansol, 132 miles from Calcutta.
