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[[File: Amingaon-Pandu Train Ferry.png|thumbright|600px|Amingaon-Pandu Train Ferry]]
'''Amingaon-Pandu Train Ferry''' was the ‘[[Eastern Bengal Railway]]’ (EBR) operation of rail transhipment by ferry crossing the Brahmaputra River between Amingaon and Pandu Ghat.
This ferry formed part of EBR ‘[[Gauhati Branch Railway]] metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line of 147 miles (235km), opened 1909, from the EBR main line at [[Golakganj]] to the ferry terminus at Amingaoan .
From the ferry terminus at Pandu Ghat the short ‘[[Pandu Ghat-Gauhati Railway]]’ ran to [[Gauhati]].where the line connected to the [[Assam-Bengal Railway]](ABR) . This short link was constructed by the EBR opened c.1908 and linked to the metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) ABR network. The line was worked by ABR and transferred to ABR, 1922
Proposals were made during World War 2 to build a bridge at the ferry during the war were considered but the time it would take (2 years) did not make it feasible.‘The Amingaon - Pandu train ferry across the mile wide Brahmaputra was a bottleneck in the metre-gauge rail system serving the British-Indian 14th Army Central Front Manipur Road railhead at Dimapur and the American/Chinese Front railhead at Ledo.Railway.
It was only in 1962 that the Saraighat Bridge replaced the ferry service<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraighat Wikipedia ‘Saraighat’ ]; Retrieved 3 June 2020</ref>,this is post independence and beyond the scope of this page.
==Description of Transhipment==
A fascinating 1943 account of the process of transhipment is given in ‘Marching on to Laffan’s Plain’ by Alan Shaw, Chapter 10 <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/60/a3260260.shtml "Marching on to Laffan’s Plain"’ by Alan Shaw, Chapter 10A from the BBC archives]; Retrieved 3 June 2020</ref>.
The Amingaon - Pandu train ferry across the mile wide Brahmaputra was a bottleneck in the metre-gauge rail system serving the British-Indian 14th Army Central Front Manipur Road railhead at Dimapur and the American/Chinese Front railhead at Ledo.
“...the final approach of the railway line to the Amingaon ‘Ghat’, or ferry loading point, was hazardous. Here the Brahmaputra was about a mile wide. ...... The train had been disconnected and remarshalled. I was now at the front end of a train of four wagons, with a snorting locomotive bringing up the rear and pushing us forward in determined fashion.
