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Lower Ganges Canal Construction Railways/Tramway
The Lower Ganges Canal was an irrigation canal built by the North-Western Provinces Public Works Department to relieve the Ganges Canal (formerly called the Upper Ganga Canal) that had opened in 1845. The canal ran from the headworks at Narora to Cawnpore, a distance of 103 miles(165km). The initial surveys were carried out from 1869; brick making in 1872 and construction machinery started arriving in 1873. Work on the headworks started in 1874 [1].
Tramway; a 4 mile(6.4km) tramway was laid from Rajghat on the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway(O&RR) to Narora for the movement of materials for the work [1].
Railway; It was initially intended to have a metre gauge(MG)system however this was abandoned in April 1873 and broad gauge(BG) was adopted for the branch from Rajghat
so that O&RR trains could work over the branch and canal system
Construction Railways/Tramway
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compiled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entry UP18 page ....