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Budge-Budge Branch Railway

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The '''Budge-Budge Branch Railway''' The [[Budge-Budge]] branch line was part of the [[Eastern Bengal Railway]](EBR) network was opened in 1890. The line connected [[Budge-Budge]] to the EBR terminus a [[Sealdah]] and becoming part of the [[Calcutta]] suburban network.
==History==
It ‘It was sanctioned in 1886 as a line from Ballygunge to [[Kidderpore]] Docks, which was to be constructed by the [[Calcutta Port Commissioners' Railway]]; a tramway from Tolly’s Nullah, which belonged to the Port Commisioners, was taken over an incorporated in the line. Sanction to an extension to Budge-Budge was given in 1888 and the line opened in 1890.
<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=8172681933 "Bengal District Gazetteers: 24-Parganas" – page 168 by Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley,I.C.S];Retrieved 10 Dec 2015</ref>
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