Lalmonirhat-Gitaldaha(Geetaldaha) Railway
The Lalmonirhat-Gitaldaha (Geetaldaha) Railway was a metre gauge(MG) line constructed by the Cooch Behar State Railway(CBSR) to connect Gitaldaha(also spelled Geetaldaha) to the Bengal Dooars Railway(BDR) at Lalmonirhat.
The MG railway opened c.1900 and was initially worked by CBSR; they operated a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) railway north from its junction with the MG Eastern Bengal Railway(EBR) at Gitaldaha to Cooch Behar and on to Jainti in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. In 1910 the CBSR railway was converted to MG [1].
From 1910 the working of the Lalmonirhat-Gitaldaha (Geetaldaha) Railway was passed to the Eastern Bengal Railway(EBR) which they operated as part of their MG network together with the CBSR following its conversion to MG.
With partition in 1947 the railway was severed with the closure of the Dadla River bridge and the lines terminated at Gitaldaha in India and Mogalhat in Lalmonirhat District on the E.Pakistan/Bangladesh side. [2] [3]
References
- ↑ " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 49; Retrieved 4 Mar 2016
- ↑ Wikipedia "Mogalhat Railway Station"; Retrieved 4 Mar 2016
- ↑ Wikipedia "Gitaldaha Railway Station"; Retrieved 4 Mar 20165
