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==Records==
An on-line search of the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) records held at the [[British Library]] relating to this railway <ref name=name>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 28 May 2016</ref>
Gives a number of references, the most relevant being cited above:-
'NWR Lahore-Peshawar Mainline' heading added, 'Records' deleted
The '''Lahore & Peshawar Railway''' in the Punjab was first surveyed in 1857-58 by deployment of a team of Engineers from the [[Sind Railway]] Company <ref> British Library Catalogue References (i) Z/E/4/31/R127; “Railways, Engineers, Sind Railway Company, Lately employed on surveys of Moultan and Amritzar to be employed to survey country between Lahore and Peshawar”; 1857-1858 and (ii) Z/E/4/31/S404; “Sind Railway Company, Recommended employment of certain engineers to survey country between Lahore and Peshawar”; 1857-1858. Both these link to File Reference IOR/E/4/848, pp1566-1570 </ref>. The construction did not proceed and years of political and military debate followed.
Finally the [[Punjab Northern State Railway]] opened the line in stages from 1868 and from 1886 became [[North Western Railway]] (NWR) '''NWR Lahore-Peshawar Mainline''' ==NWR Lahore-Peshawar Mainline== *[[Lahore & Peshawar Railway| ‘Lahore to Peshawar Section’]], 288 miles (463km), was the [[Punjab Northern State Railway]] until amalgamation into NWR in 1886. The first section from [[Lahore]] to [[Jhelum]], opened 1873 as metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) and converted to BG, 1878; from [[Jhelum]] via [[Rawalpindi]] the onward connection to [[Peshawar]], was made in 1883 with the completion of the [[Attock Bridge]] over the river Indus. **‘Tawi Branch Line’, was completed in 1890. The 26 miles(42km) from [[Wazirabad]] (a town on the [[Lahore & Peshawar Railway| ‘Lahore to Peshawar Section’]], to [[Sialkot]], opened 1884 by PNSR . Extended by NWR in 1890 by 9 miles(14km) to the ‘Frontier of Kashmir State’ where the [[Jammu and Kashmir Railway]] continued the railway a further 16 miles(26km) to the ‘Left Bank of the Tawi River near [[Jammu]]’. The 25 mile(40km)section is in some records referred to as the [[Jammu-Sialkot Railway]]. The complete line from [[Wazirabad]] to [[Jammu]], a total of 51 miles(82km) was part of the NWR network until partition when the line was severed. ''See also'' '''North Western Railway - Lines operated and worked '''
==History==
[[Lahore]] and [[Peshawar]] , 468 miles(753 km), were finally connected in 1883 <ref name=Admin1918/> with the completion of the [[Attock Bridge]] over River Indus and became the '''[[Punjab Northern State Railway]]''' (PNSR). The PNSR was transferred to the newly formed [[Railway Board]], becoming the first railway in India to be nationalised the under the control of the Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]]). Shortly after, on 1 Jan 1886, the [[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]] was formed from the amalgamation of the PNSR with others.
==Personnel==
