Ranagat-Bangaon Railway

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The Ranaghat-Bhagwangola Railway opened in 1905 as a branch of the East Bengal Railway(EBR). The name of the branch changed as the line progressed

  • Ranaghat-Bhagwangola Railway in 1884.[1]
  • Ranaghat- Murshidabad Branch before 1905
  • Lagola Branch in 1905. [2]

The branch ran from the EBR mainline at Ranaghat, via Bhagwangola and Murshidabad, to the terminus at Lalgola Ghat on the River Ganges. [3]

References

  1. No 68 Capital Railway Expenditure in India on Railways 1882-8". See dsal.uchicago.edu/statistics/1876.../1876.068.XLS;
  2. Wikipedia "Laloga Branch"; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015
  3. "Bengal District Gazetteer" / Mukshidabad by L S S O’Malley, Indian Civil Service, Calcutta; Pages 150-151"; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015