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[[File:East Bengal Railway System 1937 Map.png|thumb| EBR Railway System 1937 Map]]
[[File:East Bengal Railway - Metre Gauge System 1909.png|thumb|East Bengal Railway - Metre Gauge Division 1909]]
1937 History of Railways added and text clarification
'''Eastern Bengal Railway - Lines owned and worked'''
[[File:East Bengal Railway System 1937 Map.png|thumb| EBR Railway System 1937 Map]]
<blockquote>- a sub-section of the '''[[Eastern Bengal Railway]]'''(EBR) page</blockquote>
<blockquote>- see also separate page '''[[East Bengal Railway Bridges|Eastern Bengal Railway Bridges]]'''</blockquote>
==EBR Railway Network==
The [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EIR) owned and operated an extensive network of railways of broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]), metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) and 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]])
The development of the EBR can be considered as three systems:-
[[File:East Bengal Railway - Broad Gauge Division 1909.png|thumb|East Bengal Railway - Broad Gauge Division 1909]]
==EBR Broad Gauge System==
The following is generally based on pages 42-43 of the ‘1918 Administration Report on Railways’
<ref name=Admin191842>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n51mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” pages 42-43 (pdf51pdf 51-52) ]; Retrieved 27 Dec 20171 Sep 2020</ref>
The broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) from the [[Calcutta]] terminus station at [[Sealdah]] via [[Dum Dum]] and [[Ranaghat]] to [[Poradaha]] opened in 1862 and extended in 1864 to [[Kushtia]]. The company had also acquired a steam vessel service operating between [[Kushtia]] and [[Dacca]] on the Ganges River (known in this region as the Padma River) <ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228649/8330.pdf H.M. Government “Statute Law Repeals: Nineteenth Report : Draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill; April 2012"; pages 127-8, paragraphs 3.51 - 3.55] Retrieved on 2 Jun 2016</ref>. In 1871 the line was extended from [[Poradaha]] to a new ferry terminal at [[Goalundo]] , about 45 miles east of [[Kushtai]] and reducing the river trip to [[Dacca]]. These railways became the start of the ‘EBR Eastern Division’.
<br>Neither of these proposals were adopted.
Further minor branches had been constructed thereafter , giving by 1918 <ref name=Admin191842/> a total BG network of 569 miles(915km) :- ‘Eastern * ‘EBR Eastern Section’ 371 miles(597km), ‘Southern * ‘EBR Southern Section’ 70 miles(km113km) and ‘Central * ‘EBR Central Section’ 128 miles(206km)
By 1937 the BG line length increased to 846 miles(1361km)
<ref name=Hist193770>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/30/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 70 pdf 95]; Retrieved 1 Sept 2020</ref>:-
* ‘EBR Eastern Section’ 629 miles(1012km). The original ‘BG Main Line’ from Calcutta ran as far as Santahar where it interchanged to the ’Santahar-Silguri Extension’, a 145 mile(233km) metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) that had opened in 1877-78. This was converted to BG in stages from 1914 to 1926 to thus extending the ‘BG Main Line’
* ‘EBR Southern Section’ 92 miles(148km), with the added 23 miles(37km) ‘Lalshmikantapur Branch’, opened 1928
* ‘EBR Central Section’ 126 miles(203km) with only minor corrections from the 1918 Reportr
===Lines worked by EBR and included in the ‘EBR BG System===
In addition the BG [[Sara-Sirajgonj Railway]] 53 mile(85km) branch from the EBR mainline had been constructed and then worked by EBR as a part of the ‘EBR Eastern Section’
[[File:East Bengal Railway - Metre Gauge System 1909.png|thumb|East Bengal Railway - Metre Gauge Division 1909]]
==EBR Metre Gauge System==
The following is generally based on pages 47-48 of the ‘1918 Administration Report on Railways’
<ref name=Admin191847>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n56moden55mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” pages 47-48 (pdf56pdf 55-5756) ]; Retrieved 27 Dec 20171 Sep 2020</ref>.
The EBR metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) system originated by absorption of other railways
''See separate pages for more information and references''
[[Gauhati Branch Railway]] in 1906 the EBR opened from [[Golakganj]] eastward and reached [[Armingoan]] by 1909; where it linked to EBR’s [[Amingaon-Pandu Train Ferry]]; crossing the Brahmaputra River to the [[Pandu Ghat-Gauhati Railway]] connecting to [[Assam-Bengal Railway]](ABR) at [[Gauhati]]. This completed the ‘EBR Mainline MG’ of 328 miles(528km).
By 1918, with further construction of branches, the EBR network had a MG line length of 978 miles(1573km1574km)<ref name=Admin191847/> By 1937 the MG line length had increased to 1039 miles(1672km) with the addition of several MG branch lines and the reduction of 145(miles(223km) converted from MG to extend the ‘Eastern Section - ‘BG Main Line’ mentioned above.<ref name=Hist193776>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/30/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 76 pdf 103]; Retrieved 1 Sept 2020</ref>-
[[File:East Bengal Railway - Narrow Gauge System 1909.png|thumb|East Bengal Railway - Broad Gauge System 1909]]
The EBR 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]] system originated by absorption of other railways
''See separate pages for more information and references''
*[[Tangla Branch Railway]], MG branch of Assam Section of ‘EBR Metre Gauge’ opened 1912.
*[[Teesta-Kurigram Railway]], NG line, also known as the [[Kurigram Branch Railway]], opened 1882 as part of the the [[Kaunia-Kurigram Railway]], taken over by EBR 1887 and remained NG until after 1916.
==EBR Train Ferry Links==
== References ==
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