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The '''Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway ''' (NCR) was a metre gauge ([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line that existed in 1888 . The full name was the ‘Nagpur-Chhattisgarh Provincial State Railway’ and was also known as '''Chhattisgarh State Railway''', owned by the Provincial Government and worked as part of the Indian State Railways. The [[Great India Peninsula Nagpur-Rajnandgaon Railway]]. The Railway track, which extended from [[Nagpur]] to [[Rajnandgaon]] passed through [[Tumsar]], [[Gondia]] and [[Dongargarh]]and opened in stages from 1880 to 1883.<ref>[https://indianrailwaynotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/south-eastern-railway.pdf “South-Eastern Railway Notes” footnote 1, page 2 by Hugh Scholey]; Retrieved 26 May 2016</ref>

In 1888 this railway track ==Later Development==The Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway was purchased from Great India Peninsula Railway , in 1887, absorbed by the [[ Bengal-Nagpur Railway|Bengal Nagpur Railway]](BNR), a company incorporated in 1887, and was converted to broad gauge. Thus ; thus marked the beginning of BNR. The conversion of the line to broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) was completed by 1891<ref>[http://www.secr.indianrailways.gov.in/uploads/files/1312278598168-Tourist%20Places.pdf Website of SE Railway India "History of Nagpur Division - Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway was thus merged into BNR" paragraph 1.1]; Retrieved 26 May 2016</ref>.

External Links==Workshop=='''Motibagh Workshop, Nagpur'''<br>This workshop was originally set up by the Nagpur Chattisgarh Railway in 1879 to service its metre gauge stock. It was later taken over by the [[Bengal Nagpur Railway]](BNR) in 1887 [[BNR Railway Workshops|''see separate page - BNR Railway Workshops'']] <ref>[https://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-shop.html#work Indian Railways Fan Club 'Motibagh Workshop, Nagpur']; Retrieved 2 Mar 2020</ref>.

==Personnel==*[http[John Edwin Dallas]] from the [[Public Works Department]] was, in 1876, posted to the Survey of the Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway. *[[Cornelius Edward Cardew]] 1876, appointed to Indian State Railways, Locomotive Department. Served for over thirty years being posted to Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway and other railways <ref>[https://wwwplay.serailwaygoogle.gov.incom/Generalbooks/book_rrbreader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA457 Google Books "India Office List 1905" page 420,pdf page 457] Retrieved on 25 Jul 2016</nagpur_Chhattisgarh%20Railway.htm ref> == Further Information==Prior to 1887 see '''[[Nagpur Chhattisgarh -Rajnandgaon Railway] Website of SE ]''', then after 1887 see '''[[Bengal-Nagpur Railway India ]]''' == References ==<references />