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History
The R&KR was company owned and worked from formation in 1882.
In 1883 Alexander Izat was appointed Director, prior to this he was employed by the Railway Branch - Public Works Department (PWD) where he had served in various parts of India and was instrumental in initiating and carrying out many metre-gauge extensions[1]. He represented R&KR at the Indian Railway Conference Association and remained as Director, until his retirement in 1904. In 1918 he is recorded as being R&KR Chairman with headquarters in London Cite error: Invalid parameter in <ref> tag
The R&KR remained a private Company until nationalisation in 1943 when it was amalgamated with the Bengal and North-Western Railway(B&NWR), with which it had been closely associated, and the Lucknow-Bareilly State Railway, to form the Oudh and Tirhut Railway(O&TR).
In turn, in 1952, the Oudh and Tirhut Railway became part of North Eastern Railway, a zone of Indian Railways.
The R&KR also worked:-
- Lucknow-Bareilly State Railway , from 1891, a metre gauge(MG) line of 198 miles (317km) in 1891; extended to 312.46 miles(500km) length by 1914 Cite error: Invalid parameter in
<ref>tag. - Powayan Light Railway, from the 17 Dec 1900, a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG)line of 38.86 miles(62km) length Cite error: Invalid parameter in
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- ↑ Grace's Guide "Alexander Izat"; Retrieved on 18 Jul 2016