Calcutta Port Commissioners' Railway
The Calcutta Port Commissioners Railway was a broad gauge(BG) port railway that opened 1892 serving the docks area [1] and connected to East Indian Railway (EIR) in 1924
The Calcutta Port Commissioners’ Railway ran along the bank of the Hooghly from Chitpore in the north to Kidderpore Docks in the south, where there are extensive sidings. The CPC, in 1918 owned some 45 locomotives, all squat little 0-4-0 saddle tanks of a peculiar design with overlarge wheels. [2]
Now known as Calcutta Port Trust Railway. Some sections of this railway are still in use, while some are abandoned. It is reported that 'the sections connecting the Outram Ghat area just outside of Kidderpore have become part of the Circular Railway, with scheduled passenger services. The Kidderpore section, on the other hand, is largely in disuse, although sections of it are in intermittent operation.' [3]
References
- ↑ " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 41; Retrieved 31 Jan 2016
- ↑ Railway Raj Safari 1a - Keith Scholey
- ↑ "Calcutta Port Trust Railway - Budge Budge Jute" by Shantanu Sen, 1 Jun 2010; IRFCA report Retrieved on 31 Jan 2016