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1918 Admin Report details checked/added/corrected
The [[Jessore-Jhenidah Railway]], was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) line that opened 1913-14. Owned and worked by the Jessore-Jhenidah Railway Company, a Private Coprivate company supported by the District Board of Jessore.<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, together with [[Kotchandpur Branch Railway] Calcutta; page ]; apparantly taken over by [[McLeod's Light Railways]] in 1913Retrieved 18 Dec 2015</ref>
<ref>[http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history3.html IRFCA "Chronology of railways in India, Part 3 (1900 - 1947")]; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015</ref>
It is probable, but not proven, that the Jessore-Jhenidah Railway was being worked by [[McLeod's Light Railways]] (McLR) and they possibly took over the line at some point.
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