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Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway

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{{Line Railways Infobox
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|description= [[Cawnpore]] to [[Burwhal]]
|gauge1= Metre gauge
|gauge1details= 80 miles (1905)
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|date1= 1896
|date1details= Line opened
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|presidency= [[Bengal]]
|stations= [[Bara Banki]], [[Lucknow]], [[Malhaur]], [[Unao]]
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|successor1details= [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]]
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To the south and north of the River Ganges lay the extensive metre-gauge systems of the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]] and the [[Bengal and North-Western Railway]]. The '''Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway''' (CBR), a state line worked by the [[Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway]] (ORR), was simply an existing branch of the ORR to which a third rail was added, creating a short, mixed-gauge link
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]]

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