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#REDIRECT The '''Budge-Budge Branch Railway''' was part of the [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) network and was opened in 1890. The line connected [[Budge-Budge]] to the EBR terminus a [[Sealdah]] and becoming part of the [[Calcutta]] suburban network.
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==History==‘It was sanctioned in 1886 as a line from Ballygunge to Kidderpore Docks, which was to be constructed by the [[Calcutta Port Commissioners' Railway]]; a tramway from Tolly’s Nullah, which belonged to the Port Commisioners, was taken over an incorporated in the line. Sanction to an extension to [[Budge-Budge]] was given in 1888 and the line opened in 1890.<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=8172681933 "Bengal District Gazetteers: 24-Parganas" – page 168 by Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley,I.C.S];Retrieved 10 Dec 2015</ref> ==Further Information==See '''[[Eastern Bengal Railway - Lines owned and worked]]''' == References ==<references /> [[Category:Railways]][[Category:State Railways]]
