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The '''Dasghara-Jamalpurgunj Railway''' was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway extension of 8 miles(12km) length to the [[Bengal Provincial Railway]](BPR) Company network.
<ref>[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/bitstream/1/19119/1/BPT7832.pdf "1948 National Planning Committee Report"; page 114]; Retrieved 2 Feb 2016</ref>
<ref>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_ps=15&_hb=oth&search=r&_qname=+railway+from+Dasghara+to+Jamalpurganj " National Archives" IOR/L/F/8/19/1451]; Retrieved 10 Dec 2015<name/ref>
Special Shares were issued by BPR in December 1916 and the line was completed after 1919.
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 Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 22 Jan 2016</ref>
gives the following: -
*'''L/F/8/19/1451''' “Bengal Provincial Railway Company Limited, Contract for construction and working of a railway from Dasghara to Jamalpurganj; 1919”
