Jammu and Kashmir Railway
| Jammu and Kashmir Railway | ||
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| Line of route | ||
| Sialkot to Jammu | ||
| Gauge / mileage | ||
| Broad gauge | 16 miles (1905) | |
| Timeline | ||
| Key locations | ||
| Presidency | Bengal | |
| Stations | ||
| System agency | ||
| Worked by North Western Railway | ||
| How to interpret this infobox | ||
The Jammu and Kashmir Railway was a short broad gauge(BG) branch financed by the Princely Kashmir State Durbar. The 16 mile(26km) line opened in 1890 linking Sialkot to Jammu and was worked by North Western Railway(NWR) as part of their ‘Tawi Branch Line’ [1].
The NWR ‘Tawi Branch Line’, was completed in 1890. The 26 miles(42km) from Wazirabad to Sialkot, had opened 1884. Extended by NWR in 1890 by 9 miles(14km) to the ‘Frontier of Kashmir State’ where the Jammu and Kashmir Railway continued the railway a further 16 miles(26km) to the ‘Left Bank of the Tawi River near Jammu’ [1]. The 25 mile(40km)section is in some records referred to as the Jammu-Sialkot Railway. The complete line from Wazirabad to Jammu, a total of 51 miles(82km) was part of the NWR network until partition when the line was severed. The section within Kasmir State becoming the Suchetgarh-Jammu Railway .
Records
An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [2] gives the following:-
- R/2/1061/5; "File No.54 of 1888. Railway from Sialkot to Jammu"; 1888