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Bengal Provincial Railway

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|gauge3details= 33 miles (1905)<br>42 miles (19431917)
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|timeline3date= 1917
|timeline3details= Dasghara-Jamalpurganj line plannedopened
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The '''Bengal Provincial Railway Company''' (BPR) was registered in 1890.
This private line, formerly known as '''[[Tarakeshwar Magra Railway]]''', was opened in March 1895, (with a section opened in November 1894); a short (33 mile55km)) 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway from [[Magra]] (in [[Hooghly]] district) to [[Tarakeshwar]], an important place of pilgrimage for the Shiva sect.<refname=Admin1918>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n224/mode/2up 1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 216]; Retrieved 30 Jan 201627 Jul 2020</ref>.
The [[Dasghara-Jamalpurgunj Railway]]A short further extension from Magra to Tribeni, 2.2 miles(3.5km), opened 1919 as an extension to the BPRin 1914<ref name=Admin1918/>.
The [[Dasghara-Jamalpurgunj Railway]], from Dasghara to Jamalpurgunj, 8.3 miles(13.4km), opened in 1917, owned by the BPR as an extension to the BPR <ref name=Hist1937>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/30/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 263 pdf 306]; Retrieved 27 Jul 2020</ref>. The ‘Statistics of Working’ show the year-by-year financial results from 1913-14 through to 1936-37 <ref name=Hist1937/> The BPR line closed in 1956 == Classification ==[[Indian Railway Classification]] of 1926 - Class III railway system.
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