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North Western Railway

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== History ==
Later renamed the [[North Western Railway]], by 1905 it was the longest railway under one administration and the strategic railway of the north-wset west frontier. In 1947, it one part became the nucleus of Pakistan's railways, with 4976 of its the old system's 6861 miles lying within the new state; the part lying in India was reorganised and renamed as [[Eastern Punjab Railway]].
== Other Institutions == [[Schools#F|North Western Railway School]], Fairlawn, [[Mussoorie]].  == Recommended reading == *Berridge, Percy Stuart Attwood. ''Couplings to the Khyber: the story of the North Western Railway''. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969.Good coverage of the largest Indian railway system, especially from a civil engineering perspective. Lacks a bibliography and poorly annotated. [Slides of the photographs used form a collection deposited at the [[Cambridge South Asian Archive]] together with copies of the ''North Western Railway Magazine'', the monthly staff magazine edited by the author.] *''North Western Railway Magazine''.Monthly staff magazine. Some editorial content published in Urdu . No BL holdings. 2 copies (November 1942, December 1945) are held in the Berridge Papers, [[Cambridge South Asian Archive]].
North Western Railway School, Fairlawn , Mussoorie. Refer [[Schools]]
== External Links ==
*Terry Case, [http://members.tripod.com/shankardubai/nwrhome.htm Terry Case, "''North Western Railway'']. *[http://www.nr.indianrail.gov.in/scripts/static/history.aspx "History of Northern Railway"], ''Northern Railway''.
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]]
[[Category:Pakistan Railways]]

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