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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) '''Lahore-Peshawar Mainline'''
==History==
The BG line from [[Lahore]] to [[Jhelum]], 103 miles(166km), opened 1878, thus taking the BG line north-eastward to [[Rawalpindi]] and reaching the Indus river in 1881. The line from [[Peshawar]] had reached the left bank of Kiarabad on the left bank of the Indus river in May 1882<ref name=Admin1918/>.
[[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 [[North Western RailwayCategory:Railways]] (NWR) [[Category:State Railways]] was formed from the amalgamation of the PNSR with others.
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