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System timeline
1915	First line opened
1967	Last line nationalised
Constituent companies / lines
1915	Burdwan-Katwa Railway(BKR)
1916	Bankura-Damoodar River Railway(BDRR)
1917	Kalighat-Falta Railway(KFR)
1917	Ahmadpur-Katwa Railway[AKR)
Key locations
Headquarters	Calcutta
Workshops
Major Stations
Successor system / organisation
	Some lines taken over by Indian Railways
System mileage
2' 6" NG	150 miles (241km)
2’0” NG	36 miles 1915-24 Jessore-Jhenidah Railway(JJR)
Associated auxiliary force
How to interpret this infobox

McLeod's Light Railways

McLeod & Company was the subsidiary of a London company of managing agents, McLeod Russell & Co. Ltd.
The Company was formed to build and operate four 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) narrow gauge railways in and around Calcutta. Each railway was created as a separate Company.
All these railways had a 3½% return guaranteed by the Government

The lines continued to operate independently after the Independence in 1947, the last being transferred to Indian Railways in 1967.

They also managed the ‘Jessore-Jhenidah Railway’ from 1915-24

McLeod’s Light Railways

Lines operated and worked by McLeod's Light Railways

• Burdwan-Katwa Railway(BKR), 2’ 6” NG, 33 miles(54km), constructed by ‘Burdwan-Katwa Railway Company’, opened 1915. The line ran from Burdwan, on the EIR Mainline to Katwa, where it linked to the AKR - see below and where there was an interchange with the East Indian Railway EIR Loopline.

Marked 1 on Map. See separate BKR page.

• Bankura-Damoodar River Railway(BDRR), 2’ 6” NG, 60 miles(96km), constructed by ‘Bankura-Damoodar River Railway Company’, opened 1916-17. The line ran eastward from Bankura on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway to Raynagar (near to the Damoodar River).

Marked 2 on Map. See separate BDRR page.

• Kalighat-Falta Railway(KFR), 2’ 63 NG, 25 miles(40km), constructed by ‘Kalighat-Falta Railway Company’, opened 1917. The line, to the south of Calcutta, from Kalighat , in the southern suburbs of Calcutta, to Falta on the bank of the Hooghly River.

Marked 3 on Map. See separate KFR page.

• Ahmadpur-Katwa Railway(AKR), 2’ 6” NG, 32 miles(51km), constructed by ‘Ahmadpur-Katwa Railway Company’, opened 1917. The line ran from Ahmadpur on the EIR First Chord to Katwa, where in linked to the BKR - see above and where there was an interchange with the EIR Loopline.

Marked 4 on Map. See separate AKR page for further details.

Other Railways taken over by McLeod's Light Railways

• Jessore-Jhenidah Railway(JJR) 2’ 0” NG, 36 miles(57km), opened 1913-14. Owned and worked by Private Co., together with Kotchandpur Branch Railway . The management taken over by 'McLeod and Company', August 1915 through to 1924. The railway connected Jessore, a station of the Eastern Bengal Railway-‘EBR Central Section’, to Jhenidah on the Nabaganga River.

Marked 5 on Map. See separate JJR page.