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|description= [[Howrah]] ([[Calcutta]]) to [[Delhi]]
[[Allahabad]] to [[Jubbulpore]]
|gauge1= '''Broad gauge'''
|gauge1details= 1962 miles (1905)
|gauge2=
|gauge4=
|gauge4details=
|date1= '''1849'''
|date1details= Guarantee agreed with [[East India Company]]
|date2= '''1851'''
|date2details= Construction begun
|date3= '''1854'''<br>'''1867'''<br>'''1871'''
|date3details= First train between Howrah and Hooghly<br>First through train to Delhi<br>First through train to Bombay via Jubbalpore
|date4=
|date4details=
|date5= '''1880'''
|date5details= Line acquired by State
|presidency= [[Bengal]]
|stations= [[Agra]], [[Benares]], [[Hooghly]], [[Mirzapur]], [[Patna]]
|successor1= '''1880'''
|successor1details= worked by East Indian Railway Company
|successor2=
|image=Eir_device.gif
|caption=East Indian Railway device
|date1= '''1880'''
|date1details= EIR re-formed to work line now owned by State
|date2= '''1925'''
|date2details= Management of system taken over by State
|date3=
|date5=
|date5details=
|company1= '''1880'''
|company1details= [[East Indian Railway]]
|company2= '''1889'''
|company2details= [[Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway]]
|company3=
|company5=
|company5details= [[Jind-Palipat Railway]]
|company6= '''1925'''
|company6details= [[Oudh and Rohilkhand]] merged into EIR
|company7=
|workshop= [[Jamalpur]], [[Liluah]]
|stations= [[Agra]], [[Benares]], [[Howrah]], [[Patna]]
|successor1= '''1947'''
|successor1details= Eastern Division, Indian Railways
|successor2= '''1952'''
|successor2details= split between Eastern & Northern Railways (zones of Indian Railways)
|successor3=
|successor4details=
|gauge1= '''Broad gauge'''
|gauge1details= 2225 miles (1905)
|gauge2=
By 1859, the arrangements were "the construction and working of lines from [[Calcutta]] to [[Delhi]], and from [[Allahabad]] to [[Jubbulpore|Juppulpore]] - total, about 1,400 miles. Capital - 12,731,000''l''. This amount has been sanctioned for the works specified, but it is probable that a larger sum will be required. Rate of Interest Guaranteed - 5 per cent. on 11,553,000''l''. capital; 4½ per cent. on 1,178,000''l''. debentures, convertible into shares." (1)
== Characteristics History ==
Formed in 1845, the EIR was not contracted by the EIC to begin railway construction until 1849 when it became one of the three original guaranteed companies sanctioned to construct experimental lines. It was not until 1854 that the EIR opened its first section from [[Howrah]] to [[Hooghly]]. By 1864, the EIR had arrived in Delhi although it was not until 1871 that the Bombay-Calcutta route was completed when the GIPR reached Juppulpore.
