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Sutlej Valley Railway

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'Kasur-Lodhran Railway' link added
The [[Sutlej Valley Railway]] was opened in 1910 as part of Sutlej Valley Irrigation project. It is possible the The line was constructed and worked by [[Southern Punjab Railway]]
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-VfKmE9SM7AaNloAI&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]; 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 John Hurd II,Ian J. Kerr ; page 190 footnote 13]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref>
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