North Eastern Railway
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A zone of Indian Railways (IR), formed on 14 April 1952 from the merger of the Oudh and Tirhut Railway, the Assam Railway and the Kanpur-Achnera section of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.
Bifurcation
On 15 January 1958, ‘North Eastern Railway’ was split into two zones, with what had been the ‘Assam Railway’ and the ‘Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway’ becoming the ‘Northeast Frontier Railway’, and the remainder left as ‘North Eastern Railway’.
External Links
- "North Eastern Railway (India)" Wikipedia.
- "About Indian Railways " indianrailways.gov.in