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<ref name=Admin191842>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n51mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” pages 42-43 (pdf 51-52) ]; Retrieved 1 Sep 2020</ref>
The broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) from the [[Calcutta]] terminus station at [[Sealdah]] via [[Dum Dum]] and [[Ranaghat]] to [[Poradaha]] opened in 1862 and extended in 1864 to [[Kushtia]]. The company had also acquired a steam vessel service operating between [[Kushtia]] and [[Dacca]] on the Ganges River (known in this region as the Padma River) <ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228649/8330.pdf H.M. Government “Statute Law Repeals: Nineteenth Report : Draft Statute Law (Repeals) Bill; April 2012"; pages 127-8, paragraphs 3.51 - 3.55] Retrieved on 2 Jun 2016</ref>. In 1871 the line was extended from [[Poradaha]] to a new ferry terminal at [[Goalundo]] , about 45 miles east of [[KushtaiKushtia]] and reducing the river trip to [[Dacca]]. These railways became the start of the ‘EBR Eastern Division’.
In 1868 the [[Government of India]] took ownership of the BG [[Calcutta and South Eastern Railway]] and awarded the EBR the contract for working the line from [[Calcutta]] to [[Port Canning]]. This became, this became start of the the ‘EBR Southern Section’.
[[File:East Bengal Railway - Metre Gauge System 1909.png|thumb|East Bengal Railway - Metre Gauge Division 1909]]
==EBR Metre Gauge System==
The following is generally based on pages 47-48 of the ‘1918 Administration Report on Railways’
