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The line was constructed in 1862-63 to 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>
The railway was absorbed into [[East Bengal Railway]](EBR) becoming the '''Canning Branch Railway'''.
==External LinkReferences ==*[https:<references //books.google.fr/books?isbn=8172681933 Bengal District Gazetteers: 24-Parganas. Page 167 by Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley,I.C.S.]>
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]]
