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The '''Sialkot-Narowal Railway''' was a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line opened in 1915 as part of the North Western Railway(NWR) further extension from [[Sialkot]] to [[Narowal]] a length of 38 miles(63km).
<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/itemsstream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf #page/n127/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page119page 119]; Retrieved 21 Dec 2015</ref>
<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sialkot Wikipedia "Sialkot"]; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015</ref>
==Records==
Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the [http://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0004-research-sources-for-indian-railways-1845-1947/ 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 <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 27 Jan 2016</ref>
gives the following: -
*'''L/F/8/19/1429''' “Sialkot-Narowal Railway Company Limited, Indenture between the parties; 1917"
*'''L/AG/46/34/1''' “Copies of agreements with the Secretary of State, including those relating to the following lines worked by the (North Western Railway) Company, 1893-1924: Larkana-Jacobabad (Sind) Light Railway; Sialkot-Narowal Railway; Upper Sind Light Railway; Hoshiarpur Doab Branch Railways; 1893-1924"
*'''L/F/8/20/1778''' “Sialkot-Narowal Railway Company Limited, Suplementary contract relating to the incidence of cost of effecting Narowal Junction; 1933"
== References ==
