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==Calcutta Port History==
See '''[[Calcutta Port and Docks - Railways]]''' for early proposals on the developments of Calcutta Port '''[[Calcutta]]''' is India’s only inland port, lying around 125 miles(200km) from the Bay of Bengal on the Hooghly River. Before the British established a port there, both the Portugese and the Dutch had used the Hooghly for trade and had established jetties in the area. However British private traders and merchants built a number of piers and jetties on the river from the middle of the 17th century, first developed port facilities on the Howrah at Calcutta. By 1758 these came under control of the ‘[[East India Company|EIC]] Marine Establishment’. In addition to the private jetties, the EIC had their own jetties, wharf and a dock and marine yard at [[Kidderpore]]. In 1866 the control of the facilities passed to ‘Calcutta Municipality’ to the Government of Bengal and by 1870 who formed the ‘Calcutta Port Commissioners’ to run the port <ref name =WB96>“Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compiled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entry WB96 page ....</ref>.
[[Bird & Company]] were awarded a Contract in 1873 from the provincial government of Bengal which, faced with famine, had sought to import some 70,000 tons of rice into Calcutta by the end of 1874 over 4000,000 tons of rice had been handled. In 1880 the CPCR awarded a Contract to load and unload wagons of the railway line that ran throgh the length of the Port providing it with a vital link to the growing Indian railway netrwork. ''See [[Bird & Company]] for more information.''
==CPCR Lines and opening dates==
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