Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway

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Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway
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Line of route
Cawnpore to Burwhal
Gauge / mileage
Metre gauge 80 miles (1905)
Timeline
1896 Line opened
Key locations
Presidency Bengal
Stations Bara Banki, Lucknow, Malhaur, Unao
System agency
Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway
How to interpret this infobox

To the south and north of the River Ganges lay the extensive metre-gauge systems of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway and the Bengal and North-Western Railway. The Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway (CBR), a state line worked by the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway (ORR), was simply an existing branch of the ORR to which a third rail was added, creating a short, mixed-gauge link