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[[Bird & Company]] were awarded a Contract in 1873 from the provincial government of Bengal which, faced with famine, had sought to import some 70,000 tons of rice into Calcutta by the end of 1874 over 4000,000 tons of rice had been handled. In 1880 the CPCR awarded a Contract to load and unload wagons of the railway line that ran throgh the length of the Port providing it with a vital link to the growing Indian railway netrwork. ''See [[Bird & Company]] for more information.''
During the building of the 'Calcutta Port Commissioners' Kidderpore Dock in the mid 1880's a 3½ mile(5.6km) long temporary line was laid for the transportation of bricks from Akra for the new docks. It is thought this was a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line using locomotives and wagons on hire from the [[Calcutta Municipal Railway]] <ref name =WB141>“Industrial Railways and Locomotives of India and South Asia” compiled 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 WB141 page ....</ref>. ''See [[Akra Brick Factory Tramway/Railway]] for more information.''
==Calcutta Port Commissioners' Railway ==
