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Purulia Ranchi Light Railway
The Purulia Ranchi Light Railway was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) branch of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway.It was opened by Sir Andrew Fraser, Lieutenant Governor of Bengal on 14th November 1907 [1].
The first section of the railway from Purulia to Ranchi, a line length of 73 miles(117 km). Previous to this Ranchi had been about 70 miles from a station. The line was extended to Lohardaga - 42 miles(67km) west of Ranchi in 1913. [2]
In 1952, the BNR was merged with the East Indian Railway to form Indian Railways' Eastern Railway but in 1955, BNR re-emerged to form South Eastern Railway. The track was converted to broad gauge in January 2004.
Further Information
References
- ↑ "Bihar District Gazetteer" Volume 16
- ↑ "Indian Railway Line History" Footnote 10 by Keith Scholey; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015