Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway
| Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Line of route | ||
| Cawnpore to Burwhal | ||
| Gauge / mileage | ||
| Metre gauge | 80 miles (1905) | |
| Timeline | ||
| 1896 | Line opened | |
| Key locations | ||
| Presidency | Bengal | |
| Stations | Bara Banki, Lucknow, Malhaur, Unao | |
| System agency | ||
| Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway | ||
| How to interpret this infobox | ||
To the south and north of the River Ganges lay the extensive metre-gauge systems of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and the Bengal and North-Western Railway. The Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway (CBR), a state line worked by the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway (ORR), was simply an existing branch of the ORR to which a third rail was added, creating a short, mixed-gauge link