Cawnpore–Barabanki Railway (C–B) (1943-1953) (earlier called Cawnpore–Burhwal Railway (1894-1943) was a railway in northern

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. It was managed as part of the

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, and was worked by the

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and the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway.

History

Cawnpore–Burhwal Railway was sanctioned for construction in October 1894 to provide a link between the

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railways, north of the

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river with the Rajputana-Malwa Railway system. The construction was commenced in November 1894. The line was constructed alongside the broad gauge from Cawnpore via

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to a junction with

at Burhwal 160 km away. The metre gauge line between Burhwal and Daliganj on the Lucknow–Bareilly Railway was opened on 24 November 1896. The line was later extended to

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. The line was 29 km long. The metre gauge Cawnpore-

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section of the Cawnpore–Burhwal Railway (metre gauge link) was opened for goods traffic on 25 April 1897. The line was 72 km long. In

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and

Rohilkhand Rohilkhand (today Bareilly, Moradabad, Badaun and Rampur; ) is a region in the northwestern part of Uttar Pradesh, India, that is centered on the Bareilly and Moradabad divisions. It is part of the upper Ganges Plain, and is named after the ...

railway and Cawnpore–Burhwal railway there were no curves of a shorter radius than , except on the Cawnpore–Burhwal railway where the sharpest curve has a radius of . The Railway was essentially the common stem of the

and Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway networks. The Cawnpore–Burwhal Railway was renamed the Cawnpore–Barabanki Railway around 1943. The Cawnpore–Barabanki Railway was transferred to the North Eastern Railway on 27 February 1953.

Conversion to broad gauge

The CBR was converted to broad gauge in 2014.MEMU train
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References

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