Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway

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Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway
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System timeline
Constituent companies / lines
Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway
Powayan Light Railway
Lucknow-Bareilly State Railway
Key locations
Headquarters Izatnagar
Workshops
Major Stations Bareilly, Lucknow, Mailani, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur
Successor system / organisation
1943 Oudh and Tirhut Railway
System mileage
Metre gauge 331 miles (1905)
687 miles (1943)
Associated auxiliary force
How to interpret this infobox
Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway
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Line of route
Bareilly to Kathgodam
Gauge / mileage
Metre gauge 54 miles (1905)
Timeline
1882 Company registered
1884 Open to traffic
Key locations
Presidency Bengal
Stations Bhojeepura, Laikua, Haldwani
System agency
Worked by Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway
How to interpret this infobox

The Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway (R&KR) was a metre gauge(MG) railway whose northern terminus at Kathgodam served the submontane belt of the United Provinces between Lucknow and Moradabad, as well as a number of hill stations, such as Naini Tal.

The main line from Bhojeepura to Kathgodam opened in 1884 and developed until 1916 with a number of network extensions [1]

The R&KR also worked the Lucknow-Bareilly State Railway and the Powayan Light Railway

History

The R&KR was company owned and worked from formation in 1882 until its nationalisation in 1943 when it was amalgamated with the Bengal and North-Western Railway(B&NWR), with which it had been closely associated, and the Lucknow-Bareilly State Railway, to form the Oudh and Tirhut Railway(O&TR).

In turn, in 1952, the Oudh and Tirhut Railway became part of North Eastern Railway, a zone of Indian Railways.

Records

Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the 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 [2] gives many references. The most important being:-

  • L/AG/46/35 “ Records of the India Office relating to the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway Company; 1882-1931"
  • L/F/7/2382-2391 “Collection 380: Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway, date unspecified"

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