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Thanesar-Kaithal Railway

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The '''Thanesar-Kaithal Railway''' was a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) branch line of [[Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway]](DKR) . <br>The Also described as the ‘Kaithal Branch’, 30 miles(48km) actually ran from Kurukshetra on the DKR and opened in Dec 1910
<ref name=Admin>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n69/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 60 (pdf69)]; Retrieved 14 June 2020</ref>.
The DKR Company signed a contact in 1909 with the Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]]) for the construction and working of the Thanesar-Kaithal Railway line<ref name=GovUK/>.
This branch was operating in 1912 making Kaithal an important trading centre. This line was initially worked by the [[East Indian Railway]](EIR) and taken over by the GoI in 1925 <ref name=GovUK>[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/d2cc94a1-245a-4594-b7e3-ba22bf6a8cf7 IOR "Records of the Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway Company" IOR/L/AG/46/9"]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref><ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi%E2%80%93Kalka_line Wikipedia Delhi-Kalka line"]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref> The DKR and Branch was taken over by the [[Government of India ]]([[Government of India |GoI]]) in 1925 <ref name=GovUK/> and the working transferred to the [[North Western Railway]](NWR) on 1 Apr 1926 <ref>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/30/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/2015.36650.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 progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India – Railway Department’ page 151 pdf 190]; Retrieved 14 Jun 2020</ref>.
==Records==
==Further Information==
See ''' [[Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway]](DKR) '''
<br>and ''' [[East_Indian_Railway_-_Lines_owned_and_worked#BG_Lines_absorbed_into_EIR|'''East Indian Railway BG Lines Worked''']] up to 1925<br>and [[North_Western_Railway_-_Lines_operated_and_worked#Lines_worked_by_NWR_at_some_time|'''North Western Railways Lines Worked''']]from 1926
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