Chronology of railways in India, (1900 – 1947)

1900GIPR network becomes state property on July 1, but the company is allowed to continue operating the services.Upper Sone bridge built, the longest in India at 10,052 feet.Balotra-Hyderabad section of Jodhpur Bikaner Rly. opens.Doon Railway opens (Haridwar-Dehradun).Tapti Valley Railway opened.Connection to Gaya added on the Calcutta Delhi routeAssam Bengal Rly. opens branch line to Guwahati.Bengal Dooars Rly. open link to EBR at Lalmonirhat.Rajputana Malway Rly. becomes part of the BB&CI Rly.Bengal-Nagpur Railway lays...

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Chronology of railways in India,(1947 – 1970)

1947 Apr. 1: Mandra-Bhaun line taken over by state (now in Pakistan).Independence/Partition. Two big systems, Bengal Assam Railway and North Western Railway are no longer in India (these included the workshops of Saidpur and Mogulpura, respectively). Some 2955 route-km of NWR became the East Punjab Railway in India, leaving 8070km in the then West Pakistan. Part of the Jodhpur Railway also went to West Pakistan. Much of the Bengal Assam Railway went to the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Exchanging assets and staff...

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Chronology of railways in India, (1870 – 1899)

1870 March 7: GIPR connection over the Thull Ghat reaches Jubbulpore (Jabalpur) from Itarsi, linking up with EIR track there from Allahabad, and establishing connectivity between Bombay and Calcutta.BBCI Railway runs direct trains between Ahmedabad and Bombay.October: Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway completes Amritsar-Saharanpur-Ghaziabad line, linking Punjab Railway with the EIR and providing connectivity between Multan and Delhi.Mughalsarai – Lahore main line is also completed.Lord Mayo introduces meter gauge as a compromise...

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