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Jubbulpore-Gondia Railway

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The '''Jubbulpore-Gondia Railway''' was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway, built by the Government of India as a State railway and worked by [[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]](BNR), to connect [[Gondia]] (on the broad gauge Bengal-Nagpur main line) with the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway|GIPR]] and [[East Indian Railway|EIR]] at the important junction at [[Jubbulpore]]. The line formed an integral part of the [[Satpura Railway]] network developed by BNR.
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n14/mode/2up "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 6]; Retrieved 18 Dec 2015</ref>
Described The line opened in some early records as stages from 1903 and with the '''completion of the [[Nerbudda (Satpura Branch Line) Bridge BNR|Nerbudda Bridge (Satpura Branch Line)]] in 1905 [[Jubbulpore]] was connected southward to [[Nainpur]] and [[Gondia-Nainpur-Chhindwara-Jabalpur Railway''']] , 142 miles(229km)<ref name=Admin>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n15/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 6 (pdf15) ]; Retrieved 17 June 2020</ref>
==Further Information==
See '''[[Satpura Railway]]''' <br>and '''[[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]]'''
== References ==
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