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== External links ==The [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]](R&KR) worked the LBSR. The R&KR was also a [[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]] railway, and together with the [[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]] [[Powayan Light Railway]], the three railways were worked using shared facilities but retaining separate identities.
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The '''Lucknow-Bareilly State Railway''' (LBSR) was a metre gauge ([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) railway which formed an alternative northern "loop" between those two the cities of [[Lucknow]] and [[Bareilly]] to the broad gauge ([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) main line of the [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]].
==History==The LBSR was formed in 1891 from merger of [[Lucknow-Sitapur & Bareilly Railway]] and [[Bareilly-Pilibheet Provincial State Railway]]; worked by [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]](R&KR)<ref>[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1899/aug/03/guaranteed-railways-in-india "Guaranteed Railways in India"] ''Hansard 1803-2005'' (accessed 04 December 2008)</ref><ref name=Admin1918>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n209/mode/1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 201 pdf 209]; Retrieved 19 Dec 2015</ref>.
The LBSR expanded from 237 miles(379km) in 1905 to 312 miles(499km) in 1918 and worked as part of the R&KR system <ref name=Admin1918/>.
The LBSR was amalgamated in 1943 with the [[Bengal and North-Western Railway]](B&NWR) and the [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]] (R&KR) to form the [[Oudh and Tirhut Railway]](O&TR).
<ref>Great Britain. Law Commission, Stationery Office [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228649/8330.pdf H.M. Government “Statute Law Repeals: Nineteenth Report : Draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill; April 2012"]; page 118, paragraph 3.15. Retrieved on 31 December 2015.</ref>
==LBSR Lines with Branches and Extensions==
*[[Lucknow-Bareilly LBSR Mainline]], opened in stages 1884-91; [[Lucknow]] via [[Sitapur]], [[Mailani ]]( Lakimpur and Gola Gokaran Nath), [[Pilibhit]], [[Bhojeepura]] to [[Bareilly]]. Total length 198 miles( 317km) <ref name=Admin1918/>
** ‘Bareilly Grain Siding Branch Line’, opened 1894, 1.75 miles (2.8km) <ref name=Admin1918/>
** ‘Miailani-Sonaripur Branch’, opened 1893-94, 31 miles(49km) .This line ran from [[Mailani]] through the forest to Marauncha Ghat on the River Sarda, which is crossed by a temporary bridge to [[Sonaripur]] <ref name=Gaz15,273>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V15_279.gif “Imperial Gazetteer of India” v. 15, p. 273]; Retrieved 8 Dec 2016</ref>.
** ‘Kaurialaghat Extension Line’ a further extension of the ’Miailani-Sonaripur Branch’ (see above) reaching Kaurialaghat in 1911, an additional 20 miles(33km) <ref name=Admin1918/>.
** ‘Chandon Chok Extension Line’, opened 1903, 7.6 miles(12km) <ref name=Admin1918/> from [[Dudhwa]] on the LBSR Mainline to Mahan River at the Nepal frontier, used chiefly for the export of grain and forest products <ref name=Gaz15,273/> .
** ‘Gauri Phanta Extension Line’, opened 1903, 14 miles24km) from [[Dudhwa]] to Gauri Phanta <ref name=Admin1918/>.
** ‘Barmdee Extension Line’, opened 1912, 39 miles(62km) from [[Pilibhit]] to Barmadee
==Lines Surveyed/Proposed by R&KR as Agent==
* ‘Dudhwa Branch Extension’ and ‘Ramnager Ghat Extension’, first proposed in 1895 by as a branch of the LBSR as a ‘forest siding which could be extended gradually as the forests were opened out and their produce made available to the public’. The Agent, the R&KR, had proposed for development as part- of R&KR system. The line when complete would be c.26 miles. The first section was opened in 1903 from [[Dudhwa]] to the Mahan River as the ‘Chandon Chok Extension Line’ ''(see above)'' <ref name=History1906>[https://archive.org/stream/RailwayProjects/Railway%20projects#page/n80/mode/1up “Histories of (Indian)Railway Projects ...up to June 1906” page 42]; Retrieved 8 Dec 2016</ref>. The remaining 20 miles,‘Sonaripur-Ramnager Ghat Extension Line’ , was still pending in 1906 <ref name=History1906/>. ''There is no evidence this Extension was completed.''
* ‘Pilibhit-Barmedo Branch’, 38 miles, surveyed in 1903 by the Agents, the R&KR, on behalf of the LBSR. ‘To be constructed from funds provided by the State as an extension to the LBSR, to which it will act as a feeder. It will serve lower Kumaon and the forests on the banks of the Sarda River’ <ref name=History1906/>.''There is no evidence this Branch Line was completed.''
==Records==
Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the [http://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0004-research-sources-for-indian-railways-1845-1947/ Fibis shop]. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]]
An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 26 Jan 2016</ref>
gives the following: -
*'''L /F/8/19/1436 ''' “Rohilkund and Kumaon and Lucknow Bareilly State Railways and Powayan Steam Tramway, Reprint of contracts showing modifications up to and includng the contract of July 3rd 1914; 1917”
*'''L /AG/46/35 ''' “Records of the India Office relating to the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway Company; 1882-1931” – ‘The Company also managed the Lucknow-Bareilly State’
== References ==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]]
