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New page replacing 'Lalmonirhat-Gitaldaha(Geetaldaha) Railway'
The '''Lalmanir Hat- Gitaldaha Railway''' was a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line constructed by the [[Cooch Behar State Railway]](CBSR) to connect [[Gitaldaha]] to the [[Bengal Dooars Railway]](BDR) at [[Lalmanir Hat]].
''Spelling Note''
The railway and the towns it served have various spellings. We have adopted the spellings in the “Imperial Gazetteer” of 1908
*'''Lalmanir Hat''' with alternatives ‘Lalmonirhat’, ‘Lalmanirhat’
*'''Gitaldaha''' with alternative ‘Geetaldaha’
The MG railway opened c.1900 and was initially worked by [[Cooch Behar State Railway]](CBSR) ; they operated a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway north from its junction with the MG [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) at [[Gitaldaha]] to [[Cooch Behar]] and on to [[Jainti]] in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. In 1910 the CBSR railway was converted to MG <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n57/mode/1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 49]; Retrieved 31 Dec 2017</ref>.
From 1910 the working of the '''Lalmanir Hat- Gitaldaha Railway''' was passed to the [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) which they operated as part of their ‘EBR Metre Gauge’ network together with the [[Cooch Behar State Railway|CBSR]] following its conversion to MG.
With partition in 1947 the railway was severed with the closure of the Dadla River bridge and the lines terminated at [[Gitaldaha]] (also spelled Geetaldaha) in India and [[Mogalhat]] in [[Lalmanir Hat]] (spelt Lalmonirhat) District on the E.Pakistan/Bangladesh side.
<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogalhat_railway_station Wikipedia "Mogalhat Railway Station"]; Retrieved 31 Dec 2017</ref>
<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitaldaha_railway_station Wikipedia "Gitaldaha Railway Station"]; Retrieved 31 Dec 2017</ref>
==Further Information==
See '''[[Cooch Behar State Railway]] ''' up to 1910 then '''[[East Bengal Railway]]'''
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category: Indian States Railways]]
''Spelling Note''
The railway and the towns it served have various spellings. We have adopted the spellings in the “Imperial Gazetteer” of 1908
*'''Lalmanir Hat''' with alternatives ‘Lalmonirhat’, ‘Lalmanirhat’
*'''Gitaldaha''' with alternative ‘Geetaldaha’
The MG railway opened c.1900 and was initially worked by [[Cooch Behar State Railway]](CBSR) ; they operated a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway north from its junction with the MG [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) at [[Gitaldaha]] to [[Cooch Behar]] and on to [[Jainti]] in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. In 1910 the CBSR railway was converted to MG <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n57/mode/1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 49]; Retrieved 31 Dec 2017</ref>.
From 1910 the working of the '''Lalmanir Hat- Gitaldaha Railway''' was passed to the [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) which they operated as part of their ‘EBR Metre Gauge’ network together with the [[Cooch Behar State Railway|CBSR]] following its conversion to MG.
With partition in 1947 the railway was severed with the closure of the Dadla River bridge and the lines terminated at [[Gitaldaha]] (also spelled Geetaldaha) in India and [[Mogalhat]] in [[Lalmanir Hat]] (spelt Lalmonirhat) District on the E.Pakistan/Bangladesh side.
<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogalhat_railway_station Wikipedia "Mogalhat Railway Station"]; Retrieved 31 Dec 2017</ref>
<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitaldaha_railway_station Wikipedia "Gitaldaha Railway Station"]; Retrieved 31 Dec 2017</ref>
==Further Information==
See '''[[Cooch Behar State Railway]] ''' up to 1910 then '''[[East Bengal Railway]]'''
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category: Indian States Railways]]
