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Gauhati Branch Railway

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[[File: Amingaon-Pandu Train Ferry.png|right|600px|Gauhati Branch Railway]]
 
'''Gauhati Branch Railway'''
Part of Assam Section of [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR(qv) incorporating part of [[Kaunia-Dharlia State Tram/Railway|Kaunia Dharle Railway]] connecting [[Golakganj]] with [[Gauhati]], a distance of 147 miles (235km). [[Joseph Elston]] from the [[Public Works Department]] was the Engineer-in-Chief for the Survey in 1898 <ref name=name> [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA488 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 488 (pdf page 451)] Retrieved on 18 May 2016</ref>.  This Metre Gauge(qv[[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]); line was opened in 1906, and extended up to reach 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. ==Further Information==See '''[[Eastern Bengal Railway - Lines owned and worked]]'''<br>and '''[[Amingaon-Pandu Train Ferry]]'''
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