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<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi%E2%80%93Kalka_line Wikipedia Delhi-Kalka Line"]; Retrieved 10 Dec 2015</ref>
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The '''Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway'''(DKR) Company was formed in 1889. The broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line ran north from [[Delhi]] via [[Umballa]]+(Ambala) to Kalka in the Himalayan foothills where it joined the [[Kalka-Simla Railway]].
<ref>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/d2cc94a1-245a-4594-b7e3-ba22bf6a8cf7 National Archives "Records of the Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway Company" IOR/L/AG/46/9]; Retrieved 10 Dec 2015</ref>
<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 69]; Retrieved 17 Dec 2015</ref>
The line was worked by the [[East Indian Railway]](EIR) and taken over by the Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]]) in 1925.
'''Umballa''' ''is used in this text as it was the name of the Railway Company.''
'''Amballa''' ''and'' '''Ambala''' ''are also recorded in differet different documents as various spellings .''
''None of these three place names appear in the [[Gazetteers#Imperial_Gazetteer_of_India|The Imperial Gazeteer Gazetteer of India ]] 1908 which is normally taken to be the definitive source'' ==External Links==*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi%E2%80%93Kalka_line Delhi-Kalka Line"] Wikipedia
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