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'''The [[Sutlej Valley Railway''']] was opened in 1910 as part of Sutlej Valley Irrigation project. It is possible the line was worked by [[Southern Punjab Railway]]
Constructed as part ‘However from 1914 onwards, owing to the First World War, which caused financial strigencyt, developments of railways stagnated....in order to meet the necessities of the military authorities the Sutlej Valley Irrigation project; merged into SPRRailway, from [[Kasur]] to [[Lodharan]], with 208 miles of track, was dismantled in 1917.’<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L1RGX3whGEIC&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=Sutlej+Valley+Railway&source=bl&ots=OTgfyY8yx5&sig=MIqEW4D7w7kbSYsL28yzUNbav6w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Vzw-VfKmE9SM7AaNloAI&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=snippet&q=Sutlej%20Valley%20%20&f=false] Google Books - Punjab, the Crucial Decade (qv1911-1920)by Subash Chander Sharma; page 81</ref><ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TPB5RTODBJAC&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=Sutlej+Valley+Railway&source=bl&ots=6f707jWIAy&sig=yO_2ojIxGimO4WvebISn8nmDkeU&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrqeXSiMfJAhXEPBQKHSKODbwQ6AEIWDAJ#v=onepage&q=Sutlej%20Valley%20Railway&f=false] Google Books - India's Railway History: A Research Handbook byr John Hurd II, 1917-18Ian J. Kerr ; some evidence that line then dismantledpage 190 footnote 13</ref>
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[[Category:Railways]]
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