Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway
| 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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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]
- Kasganj extension - completed in 1885 reaching Bareilly, 1906; 63 miles(100km)
- Ramnager extension from Moradabad, 1908; 48 miles(76km)
- Kashipur extension from Lalkua, 1907; 36 miles(57km)
- Shahjahanpur extension from Pilibhit, 1911-16; 56 miles(89km)
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, 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.
