Template:Infobox company The Indian Branch Railway Company was formed in 1862 to build short branch and feeder lines. It received no guarantee but was offered a 20-year subsidy. In the 1850s, it secured a guaranteed return.[1][2]
In 1863, it built the Template:RailGauge wide narrow gauge railway line between Azimganj and Nalhati.[2] The Azimgan–Nalhati line was taken over by the Government in 1872, as Nalhati State Railway.[1][3] In 1867, it opened the Template:RailGauge wide metre gauge Kanpur–Lucknow branch line.[1][3]
It established a railway workshop at Alambagh in 1865 and another at Charbagh in 1867.[4]
Around 1872, it was merged into Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway.[2][3] Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway was subsequently merged with East Indian Railway Company in 1925.[5]
Conversion to broad gauge
The railway lines were converted to Template:RailGauge broad gauge in 2017.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 IR History I : Early Days (1832-1869). IRFCA. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Indian Branch Railway. fibis. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway. Old Martinian Association. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ↑ The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway. Management E-books6. Retrieved 30 May 2013.Template:Dead link
- ↑ IR History III : (1900-1947). IRFCA. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
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