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Cawnpore-Barabanki Railway
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Cawnpore-Barabanki Railway | ||
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Line of route | ||
Cawnpore to Aishbagh Daliganj to Barabanki | ||
Gauge / mileage | ||
Metre gauge part Broad Gauge |
45 miles (1897) | |
Metre gauge | 18 miles (1896) | |
Timeline | ||
1896 | Daliganj to Barabanki section opened | |
1897 | Cawnpore to Aishbagh section opened | |
Key locations | ||
Presidency | Bombay | |
Stations | Cawnpore, Aishbagh, Daliganj, Barabanki | |
System agency | ||
1896-7 | worked jointly by B&NWR and R&KR | |
How to interpret this infobox |
The Cawnpore-Barabanki Railway was owned by the Government of India(GoI) and was worked by the Bengal and North-Western Railway(B&NWR) and the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway(R&KR) and their successors.
The Cawnpore-Barabanki Railway was a metre gauge(MG) railway and essentially the common stem of the B&NWR and the R&KR networks. [1]
There were two lines:
- Daliganj-Barabanki line, MG linking Daliganj (R&KR) to Barabanki (B&NWR), a line of 18 miles(29km) opened 1896
- Cawnpore-Aishbagh line, MG linking Cawnpore to Aishbagh (R&KR), a line of 45 miles(72km), opened 1897. Part of this section was originally named the Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway (Metre Gauge Link), an existing branch of the O&RR to which a third rail was added, creating a short, mixed (BG and MG) gauge link
The Cawnpore-Barabanki Railway was transferred to the North Eastern Railway on 27 February 1953.
External Links
- "Cawnpore-Barabanki Railway" Wikipedia
References
- ↑ "Indian Railway Line History" page 11 by Keith Scholey; Retrieved 10 Dec 2015