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==History==The '''Sind-Sagar Railway''' was originally constructed by the [[Punjab Northern State Railway]](PNSR) as a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) State Railway from [[Lala Musa]] to [[Malakwal]] in 1880, a distance of 37 miles(59km) <ref name=adminAdmin107>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n116/mode/2up 1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 107, pdf page 116]; Retrieved 15 Jul 201618 Dec 2017</ref>. This line formed a branch to the PNSR line from [[Lahore]] via [[Lala Musa]] to [[Jhelum]] which had opened in 1873 as a MG line and converted to broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) in 1878 <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n116/mode/1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 106, pdf page 115]; Retrieved 18 Dec 2017</ref>.

In some early records the line was called the ‘Sind-Sagar (Salt Branch) Railway’. Salman Rashid writes “Nearing the end of the 19th century, the salt mines at Khewra were fully functional on modern lines and delivering up large quantities of fine rock salt every month. The earlier camel trains to the marts east of the Jhelum River or the river journey upstream and down were slow and cumbersome. A rail connection to Khewra was the answer” <ref>[http://www.irfca.org/articles/sind-sagar.html Worth its salt: The Sind Sagar Railway by Salman Rashid, 2013]; Retrieved 10 Dec 2017</ref>. The salt mines were connected to the PNSR at [[Malakwal]] by the ‘[[Khewra Salt Mines Tramway|’ Khewra Salt Mines Tramway’ - see separate page]]. In 1886 the Sind-Sagar Railway was amalgamated with other railways to form the [[North-Western State Railway]](NWR) and railway line from [[Lala Musa]] to [[MalakwalMalukwal]] was converted to broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) <ref name=adminAdmin107/>.

The '''NWR Following amalgamation the railway became known as the ‘NWR Frontier Section (Military) Sind-Sagar Branch''' was Mainline’. The completion of the new [[Chenab Bridge, Shershar|Chenab Bridge]] in 1890 connecting to [[Shershar]] <ref name for =Admin107/>.  After 1947, the line and continued to be extetended with branch lines and designated as part of the became the 'Frontier Section ''Shorkot- Military Lalamusa Branch Line' '' which begins from Shorkot Cantonment Junction station and ends at Lalamusa Junction station. The total length of this railway line is 314 kilometers (195 mi). There are 42 railway stations from Shorkot Junction to Lalamusa Junction <ref name=admin>[http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Shorkot%E2%80%93Lalamusa_Branch_Line Wikiwand “Shorkot-Lalamusa Branch Line” ]; Retrieved 18 Dec 2017</ref>.