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==Survey==
The Chairman of the [[Scinde Railway|Scinde Railway Company]], [[William Patrick Andrew|Mr W P Andrews]] in March 1856 responded to a suggestion from the Government of Bombay proposing to undertake necessary surveys of the line “from Mooltan to Lahore and Umritsir” (Amritsar)
<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s5IEAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books “The Punjaub Railway. A Selection from Official Correspondence regarding the introduction of Railways into the Punjaub” by Sir William Patrick Andrew, Chairman of the Scinde and Punjaub Railways; 1857’ ‘Report by William Bruton’ 15th June 19571857, pages 9-10]; Retrieved 19 Feb 2018</ref>
The survey was undertaken by Mr T A Yarrow, Consulting Engineer to the Scinde Railway Company and [[William Arthur Brunton]], Superintending Engineer, Punjaub Railway Survey and submitted in his report dated 15 Jun 1857, for a single line railway of 5 feet 6 inches ‘uniting the towns of Umritsir to Lahore (248 miles, 60 chains) and Lahore to Mooltan (216 miles, 60 chains)’ <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s5IEAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books “The Punjaub Railway. A Selection from Official Correspondence regarding the introduction of Railways into the Punjaub” by Sir William Patrick Andrew, Chairman of the Scinde and Punjaub Railways; 1857’ ‘Report by William Bruton’ 15th June 19571857, pages 13-24]; Retrieved 19 Feb 2018</ref> ''The town names in this Report use the spelling in use at that time''
==Construction==
