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The '''Tezpur-Balipara Light Railway''' ==History==This line was a short 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railwayauthorised for construction under the Indian Tramways Act, built to carry tea from upcountry estates to 1886 by the river port Commissioner of [[Tezpur]] for onward shipment down Assam on the [[Brahmaputra]] to [[Calcutta]]1 June 1895. The line On the 3 May 1898 sanction was owned and worked by the Tezpur-Balipara Light Railway Company and linked [[Tezpur]] to [[Balipara]] a length of 20 miles(32km) and opened in 1894-95given under this Act. <ref name=nameHist1937>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/stream30/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystemitems/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#pagein.ernet.dli.2015.36650/n246/mode/2up "Administration Report on the 2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways , constructed and in India – corrected up to 31st progress’, 31 March 1918"; Superintendent 1937 by ‘The Government of Government India - Railway Department’ page Printing, Calcutta; page 238298 pdf 341]; Retrieved 5 Aug 2020</ref>. The ‘Statistics of Working’ show the year-by-year financial results from 1913-14 Feb 2016through to 1936-37 <ref name=Hist1937/> == Classification ==[[Indian Railway Classification]] of 1926 - Class III railway system. ==Later History==This NG light railway was still operational in 1950 <ref>‘Light Railways in West Bengal’ by Sikiduro, ‘The Economic Weekly’, 30 May 1953, page 623</ref>.
This NG light railway was still operational in 1950 <ref>”Light Railways in West Bengal” by Sikiduro, ‘The Economic Weekly’, 30 May 1953, page 623</ref>.
1937 Admin info, Statistics and Classification, Later Hitory’ added
[[File: Tezpore-Balipara Light Railway Map 1909.png|thumb|right|Tezpore-Balipara Light Railway Map 1909]]
The '''Tezpur-Balipara Light Railway''' was a short 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway, built to carry tea from upcountry estates to the river port of [[Tezpur]] for onward shipment down the [[Brahmaputra]] to [[Calcutta]]. The line was owned and worked by the Tezpur-Balipara Light Railway Company and linked [[Tezpur]] to [[Balipara]] a length of 20 miles(32km) and opened in 1894-95.
<ref name=name>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n246/mode/1up "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 238]; Retrieved 5 Aug 2020</ref>
<big>'''Borjuli-Rangapara Light Railway Branch'''</big>
<br>"A tramway, 2 miles long, was constructed at the expense of the Borjuli Tea Company connecting the tea factory at [[Borjuli]] with [[Rangapara]] staion on the Tezpur-Balipara Light Railway. It was worked by the Tezpur-Balipara Railway but from February 1908 closed to traffic."<ref name=name/>
