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#REDIRECT The '''Mymensingh-Jamalpur-Jagannath Railway''' was opened in 1899, the metre gauge([[Indian General Navigation and Railway Company Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line of 56 miles(90km) linking these three towns.
→Further Information: link changed EBR - Lines owned and worked
The line was owned by the [[Indian General Navigation and Railway Company]] but was worked by the [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR).
<ref>Railway Raj Safari 1a - Keith Scholey</ref>
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n58/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 50]; Retrieved 9 Feb 2016</ref>
==Route==
*[[Mymensingh]] (renamed from [[Nasirabad]] in about 1911 due to confusion with town in Rajputana); with its connection to the [[Mymensingh–Bhairab Bazar Railway]] worked by the [[Assam Bengal Railway]](ABR)
*[[Jamalpur]] (59 miles/90km from Mymensingh)was the junction with the Bahadurabad branch, opened after 1911 which ran to Bahadurabad (25 miles/40km)
*[[Jagannath]] (20 miles/32km from Jamalpur) where it connected with a steamer station on River Jamuna
The Mymensingh-Jamalpur-Jagannath Railway was acquired by the State in the 1920’s and the management passed to [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR).
<ref>[http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Railway "National Encylopedia of Banglash – Railway" - paragraph 11]; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015</ref>
==Further Information==
See '''[[Eastern Bengal Railway - Lines owned and worked]]'''
== References ==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Assisted Private Railways]][[Category:State Railways]]
