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== History ==
The BNR was the last major railway formed to benefit from a Government guarantee, with the system from the outset owned by the Government of India [[Government of India |GoI]] who contracted the BNR company to manage matters, initially for 25 years and therafter determinable every 10 years.
From 1898 the BNR established the [[Kharagpur Railway Workshops|'Kharagpur Railway Workshops' - ''see separate page'']]
The BNR was the last company to be nationalised, on 1 October 1944. 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'''.
