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The line from [[Cawnpore]] via [[Lucknow]] to [[Fyzabad]] was surveyed in 1862 by the IBR and an engineer examined the proposed route <ref name=Mukher>[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Pictorial_Lucknow.html?id=7RCe2E5ch80C&redir_esc=y Google Books “The Pictorial Lucknow” by P. C. Mukherji, pages 81-82. First published Lucknow 1883, reprinted by AES New Delhi 2003]; Retrieved 2 Sept 2016</ref>. Construction of the line progressed very slowly; and the 42 miles (67km) long, was opened on 23 Apr 1867. This became the ‘Cawnpore Branch’ of the [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]](O&RR). The gauge of the original line is not known but was converted to Broad Gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) specification and became part of the O&RR network <ref name=Admin>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n139/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 132, pdf page 139]; Retrieved 2 Sept 2016</ref>.

*Directors. The London based Directors From the 1867 ‘Thacker's Directory for Bengal and other territories’ for the under ‘Indian Branch Railway Company’ the following are indexed in Grace's Guide from the 1867 Thacker’s Directory <ref name=Grace>[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1867_Thackers:_Indian_Branch_Railway 'Graces Guide' - "Thacker’s Directory, 1867 – Indian Branch Railway Company"]; Retrieved 5 Mar 20171 Apr 2020</ref>:-  Directors *Marquis of Tweedale - Chairman*William Dent - Deputy Charman*Murray Gladstone*C. C. Johnstone Major-Gen – Managing Director*J. A. Tobin*R. W. Kennard*J. A. Turner*John Pender*[[Henry Yule]], Col. *Lestock R. Read Controller of Accounts Offg.*J.Walker Agent and Engineer-in-Chief, Cawnpore - * James E Wilson <ref name=Grace/>