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Owned The line, which was owned and worked By by the Provincial Government of Assam Provincial Gov't; mountain railway, opened 1886; closed 1901 as uneconomic brought limestone and coal from the mines in the Khasia Hills south to navigable water at Companyganj. Initially the line was worked in conjunction with ropeways but after earthquake1891 packhorses brought the goods down the steep incline up to the hills.
{{WorkThe ambitious railway project was conceptualised by a British engineer in India, H. Kench, after need arose to connect [[Shillong]], the then capital of the British India Province, to [[Calcutta]] by rail since carts had difficulty in negotiating mule tracks and roads on the steep slope of the Khasi Hills. The Railway continued to run between Tharia and Companyganj till the Assam earthquake of 1897 in which the tracks were completely destroyed. The tracks were not repaired after that and the railway finally closed in 1900 Four tank engines of the 0-4-2T arrangement were inuse were subsequently transferred to the Jorhat line. ==External Links==*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherra_Companyganj_State_Railways Wikipedia]*[http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-03-15/news/31196903_1_rail-link-shillong-mountain-railway Cherra Companyganj State Railways, a mountain railway that existed 125 years ago]*[http://www.pearcedale-conservation-park.com.au/c&b/DL.html India’s 2ft 6in NG lines] *[http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-Progresshistory2.html IRFCA History of Indian Railways – part 2 – 1886] ==References==Railway Raj Safari 1a -Rly}}Keith Scholey
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Alternative name for '''Cherrapunjee Mountain Railway'''
The Cherra-Companyganj State Railways was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) mountain railway that operated between Tharia, a mining town in Meghalaya and Companyganj, now in Sylhet District of Bangladesh, for a distance of 7.5 miles(12.1 km).
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