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Noamundi Iron Mine Railway
Noamundi Iron Mine Railway
'Tata Iron and Steel Company' discovered iron ore at Noamundi [1] in 1917 with the first despatches being sent out by the rail in 1925 [2] by the connection to the Bengal-Nagpur Railway(BNR) 'Tatanager-Bilaspur Section'.
A 2ft/610mm narrow gauge(NG) railway transported ore to a crushing and loading plant. Here the ore was loaded into broad gauge(BG) mainline wagons and sent to Tata's Jamshedpur Steel Works. The loading plant is on a two mile(3.2km) siding west of Noamundi station [2].
It is unknown if the 2ft 0in NG system is still in use [2].
Two metre gauge(MG) locomotives dating from 1941 being on the site [2]. The reason for this unknown as BG was the gauge of the BNR system linking the two Tata operations.
References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noamundi Wikipedia "Noamundi"]; Retrieved 20 Feb 2017
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compliled by Simon Darvill. Published by ‘The Industrial Railway Society’ 2013. ISBN 978 1 901556 82-7. Available at http://irsshop.co.uk/India. Reference: Entry JH47 page ....
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