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'''The [[Sutlej Valley Railway''']] was opened in 1910 as part of Sutlej Valley Irrigation project. The line was constructed and worked by [[Southern Punjab Railway]]
Merged into SPR(qv)The [[Kasur-Lodhran Railway]] section - ‘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 Railway, 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-18VfKmE9SM7AaNloAI&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=snippet&q=Sutlej%20Valley%20%20&f=false Google Books "Punjab, the Crucial Decade (1911-1920)" by Subash Chander Sharma; page 81]; aquired Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</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" by State and merged into NWRJohn Hurd II, 1930Ian J. Kerr ; page 190 footnote 13]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref>
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'Kasur-Lodhran Railway' link added
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[[Category:State Railways]]
