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'''Cherra Companyganj State Railways (CCSR)''' was a [[narrow gauge]] [[mountain railway]] that existed in [[British India]].<ref name=et>{{cite news
|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-03-15/news/31196903_1_rail-link-shillong-mountain-railway
|title=Cherra Companyganj State Railways, a mountain railway that existed 125 years ago
|date=15 March 2012
|work=The Economic Times
|access-date=15 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Hilaly |first=Sarah |title=The railways in Assam, 1885-1947|year=2007 |isbn=978-8177694222 |location=Varanasi |publisher=Pilgrims Pub.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
|title=Transport system and economic development in Assam
|location=Gauhati
|publisher= Publication Board, Assam
|author=Shyam Bhadra Medhi
|year=1978
|lccn=81903856 }}</ref>

==History==

The Cherra Companyganj State Railway was conceptualized by Hubert Kench, the British Executive Engineer of Khasi and Jaintia Hills Division, as there was need to connect [[Shillong]], capital of province to [[Calcutta]], then the capital of British India by rail.<ref name=et/> The CCSR in Meghalaya was opened to traffic on 6 June 1886. CCSR was a {{RailGauge|2ft6in|lk=on}} [[Narrow gauge railway|narrow gauge]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Railways to make fresh entry into Meghalaya|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=sep2712/oth07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124055203/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=sep2712%2Foth07|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 November 2012|access-date=4 August 2013|newspaper=The Assam Tribune|date=27 September 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> tramway and the railway operated between Tharia, a mining town in [[Meghalaya]] and Companyganj, now in [[Sylhet District]] of [[Bangladesh]], for a distance of {{convert|7.5|mi|km}}. Seven gradients were worked by rope mechanisms. It was built at a cost of eight [[lakhs]], which was incurred by erstwhile Provincial Government of Assam.<ref name=ie>{{cite news|title=Meghalaya fell off Rly map in 1897|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/meghalaya-fell-off-rly-map-in-1897/203485|access-date=4 August 2013|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=1 July 2007}}</ref> An extension of railway link up to [[Sylhet]] and [[Goalundo]] was in plan from where railway link to [[Calcutta]] already existed<ref name=et/> but plans never materialised.

==Closure==

The railway continued to run between Tharia and Companyganj till the [[Assam earthquake of 1897]] in which the tracks were completely destroyed.<ref name=ie/> The tracks were not repaired after that<ref name=ie/> and the railway finally closed in 1900.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b7MxAQAAMAAJ&q=Cherra+Companyganj+State+Railways
|title=Sessional Papers: Volume 73
|publisher=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
|year=1902
|quote=The Cherra-Companyganj State Railway ',(Ab'ssam) was finally closed on the 15th October 1900, as since the earthquake it had ceased to earn working expenses, and the volume of the traffic offering was insufficient to justify the line ...}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Transport in Shillong]]
[[Category:Transport in Sylhet]]

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