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Branch line Originally part of the [[Calcutta and South Eastern Bengal Railway(qv)]], a private Company that was taken into Government ownershgip in 1868.
Opened The broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line was constructed in 1862-63to handle traffic from the opening of [[Port Canning]] as an auxiliary harbour to [[Calcutta]], but the failure of Port Canning involved the railway in its ruin.<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=8172681933 "Bengal District Gazetteers: 24-Parganas" Page 167 by Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley,I.C.S.];Retrieved 10 Dec 2015</ref>
{{WorkThe railway was absorbed into [[East Bengal Railway]](EBR) becoming the '''Canning Branch Railway'''. ==Further Information==See '''[[Eastern Bengal Railway -in-Progress-Rly}}Lines owned and worked]]''' == References ==<references />
→Further Information: link changed EBR - Lines owned and worked
'''Canning Branch Railway'''
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[[Category:State Railways]]
