Bengal Central Railway
| Bengal Central Railway | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Line of route | ||
| Bangaon to Khulna | ||
| Gauge / mileage | ||
| Broad gauge | 125 miles (1895) | |
| Timeline | ||
| 1881 | Formed as private company without guarantee | |
| 1882-1884 | Opened to traffic | |
| 1904 | Nationalised and merged into Eastern Bengal State Railway | |
| Key locations | ||
| Presidency | Bengal | |
| Stations | Bangaon, Jessore, Khulna | |
| System agency | ||
| By 1895 | Worked by Eastern Bengal State Railway | |
| How to interpret this infobox | ||
The Bengal Central Railway (BCR) was an un-guaranteed, privately owned, company formed in 1881 to build and operate a broad gauge(BG) railway from Bangaon via Jessore to Khulna
The 'Bengal Central Railway Company' was formed and launched in July 1881 and raised over £1 million initially … "The Company was found to be a pure financing vehicle when, a matter of months after listing, the operations of the line were subcontacted to the wealthy Eastern Bengal Railway Company(EBR) ... The price of EBR’s ... shares reacted positively to this arrangement ... in June 1882, after which EBR was purchased by the Government of India(GoI)... BCR management reverted to the GoI at that time.” [1]
(The EBR became the Eastern Bengal State Railway, owned and managed by the Government of India (GoI), on 30 June 1884).
History
The Company constructed two BG lines Ranaghat to Bangaon , 21 miles(33km), opened in October 1882 Dum Dum to Khulna via Bangoan , 108 miles(172km) opened in stages and completed in 1884.
In 1904, to ensure better management, the BCR merged into the Eastern Bengal State Railway (EBR) that had been formed in 1884 by the GoI and expanded in 1887 from the amalgamation of other lines working in the region. The former BCR lines became the basis of the Kulna Branch Railway of the EBR network. [2] [3]
Records
The following is held in the India Office Records at the British Library but has not been included in the index, Z/L/AG/46.
- L/AG/46/4/11 : List of employees (1886-1896).
References
- ↑ "Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914" by Stuart Sweeney; Retrieved 27 Dec 2015
- ↑ Wikipedia "Bangaon Railway Station"; Retrieved xx Dec 2015
- ↑ Railway Raj Safari 1a by Keith Scholey