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|timeline4details= Link with [[East Indian Railway]] at [[Moghal Sarai]]
|timeline5date= 1889
|timeline5details= State purchases ORRO&RR
|presidency= Bengal
|stations= [[Aligarh]], [[Bareilly]], [[Cawnpore]], [[Delhi]], [[Lucknow]], [[Moradabad]], [[Shahjahanpur]]
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|timeline1date= 1889
|timeline1details= State agency takes over running of ORRO&RR
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The '''Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway''' (ORRO&RR) took over the interests of the [[Indian Branch Railway]] (IBR) and a Government of India ([[Government of India |GoI]]) guarantee.
== History ==
The ORR O&RR established workshops at [[Alambagh]] (1865) and [[Charbagh]] (1867) to provide capacity for the major broad gauge line from [[Benares]] to [[Lucknow]], to the north of the River Ganges, which it opened to traffic in 1872. In 1874, the line was extended to [[Moradabad]] and in 1876, to [[Saharanpur]] where the ORR O&RR met the [[North Western Railway]]NWR). On 31 December 1888, the [[Government of India |GoI ]] assumed both ownership and management of the ORRO&RR.
In 1925, the ORR O&RR was merged into the [[East Indian Railway]] (EIR) when the latter came into state management.
== Records ==
Unfortunately, there are no ORR O&RR staff records held in the [[India Office Records]] at the [[British Library]].
==Also see==
