Bengal Nagpur Railway

Bengal Nagpur Railway

Industry	Railways
Founded	1887
Defunct	1952 (Merged with East Indian Railway Company to form Eastern Railway)
Headquarters	Kolkata , India
Area served	Eastern and Central India
Services	Rail transport
Subsidiaries	Bengal Nagpur Railway

The Bengal Nagpur Railway was one of the companies which pioneered development of the railways in eastern and central India. It was succeeded first by Eastern Railway and subsequently by South Eastern Railway.

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History

The opening of the Mumbai–Thane line in 1853 marked the beginning of railways in India. Extension of the railways was set off throughout the country. On the north-eastern side of Mumbai, the Great Indian Peninsular Railway line was extended up to Bhusawal and then split in two. While one track led to Nagpur, the other to Jabalpur to connect with the East Indian Railway line from Allahabad to Jabalpur, thereby connecting Mumbai and Kolkata. The great famine of 1878 provided an opportunity for the construction of 150 km long meter gauge link called the Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway in 1882 connecting Nagpur with Rajnandgaon.^[1]

The Bengal Nagpur Railway was formed in 1887 for the purpose of upgrading the Nagpur Chhattisgarh Line and then extending it via Bilaspur to Asansol, in order to develop a shorter Howrah-Mumbai route than the one via Allahabad.^[1] The Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway was owned by the provincial government.^[2] Bengal Nagpur Railway was formed in 1887.^[3] The Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway was purchased from Great Indian Peninsula Railway by Bengal Nagpur Railway in 1888, and was converted to broad gauge.^[2] The Bengal Nagpur Railway main line from Nagpur to Asansol was opened for goods traffic on 1 February 1891.^[4] It was only after Kharagpur was linked from the west and the south that it was connected to Howrah in 1900.^[5] Further it was planned to construct a 161 miles long Branch Line from Bilaspur to Umaria for through connection with the Great Indian Peninsula Railway(GIPR) system at Katni, This BNR main line was completed in 1886-87 and connected to the Umaria Coalfield Railway, which worked from Umaria to Katni, thus creating a branch line connecting BNR station at Bilaspur to GIP Railway station Katni near Jabalpur^[6] Further, 1901 part of the East Coast State Railway was absorbed into the BNR, thus the Cuttack to Waltair section came under management of BNR.^[7]

Although Bengal Nagpur Railway was not a part of original design to connect major points in the subcontinent with a network of railways, it was instrumental in developing a shorter, and hence more popular, route from Howrah to Mumbai and the trunk route from Howrah to Chennai.^[1]^[4]^[5]

The civil engineer Lt Col Arthur John Barry was the Executive Engineer in charge of the construction of the bridge over the Damodar River and the work of the Damodar district of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, of which he was afterwards Superintending Engineer of the Bengal section.^[8]

In 1925, Bengal Nagpur Railway purchased five steam railcars from Sentinel and Metro-Cammell.^[9]^[10] In 1936 the company owned 802 locomotives, 5 railcars, 692 coaches and 25.434 goods wagons.^[11]

The management of the Bengal Nagpur Railway was taken over by the Government of India in 1944.^[4] Eastern Railway was formed on 14 April 1952 with the portion of East Indian Railway Company east of Mughalsarai and the Bengal Nagpur Railway.^[12] In 1955, South Eastern Railway was carved out of Eastern Railway. It comprised lines mostly operated by BNR earlier.^[12]^[13] Amongst the new zones started in April 2003 were East Coast Railway and South East Central Railway and South Coast Railway was bifurcated between ECOR and SCR and a new Zone was formed in Visakahapatnam as Headquarters. Both these railways were carved out of South Eastern Railway.^[12]

Classification

It was labeled as a Class I railway according to Indian Railway Classification System of 1926.^[14]^[15]

Recreational arm

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Number 1 Down Mail". Railways of the Raj. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway". fibis. Archived from the original on 8 May 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
^ "Bengal-Nagpur Railway". fibis. Archived from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Major Events in the Formation of S.E. Railway". South Eastern Railway. Archived from the original on 1 April 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
^ ^a ^b R.P.Saxena. "Indian Railway History timeline". Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
^ Bhowmik, Shyamapada (1998). History of the Bengal Nagpur Railway Working Class Movements, 1906-1947: With Special Reference to Kharagpur. Krantik Prakashani. p. 5. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
^ Locomotive Railway Carriage and Wagon Review. 1917. p. 5. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
^ Frederick Arthur Crisp Visitation of England and Wales, Volume 14, London (1906)
^ Ostendorf, Rolf (1977). Dampftriebwagen, Bauarten, Typen und Systeme (in German). Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart. p. 159-160. ISBN 3-87943-517-0.
^ "Bengal Nagpur, Articulated Sentinel-Cammell steam railcar, mid 1920's". Flickr. 27 June 2017. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
^ World Survey of Foreign Railways. Transportation Division, Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Washington D.C. 1936. p. 211. Archived from the original on 16 August 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Geography – Railway Zones". IRFCA. Archived from the original on 19 August 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
^ "IR History: Part - IV (1947 - 1970)". IRFCA. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
^ "Indian Railway Classification". Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ World Survey of Foreign Railways. Transportation Division, Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Washington D.C. 1936. pp. 210–219. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.

External links

Documents and clippings about Bengal Nagpur Railway in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Class I railways according to Indian Railway Classification System

Railways in Eastern India

National network/
trunk lines

Other lines/sections

Interstate	Asansol–Gaya section Asansol–Patna section Asansol–Tatanagar–Kharagpur line Barauni–Gorakhpur, Raxaul and Jainagar lines Barkakana–Son Nagar line Barsoi–New Farakka section Barsoi–Radhikapur branch line Dumka–Bhagalpur line Gaya–Mughalsarai section Hatia–Rourkela line Jasidih–Dumka–Rampurhat line Jharsuguda–Vizianagaram line Katihar–Siliguri line Kharagpur–Puri line Khurda Road–Visakhapatnam section Kothavalasa–Kirandul line New Jalpaiguri–Alipurduar–Samuktala Road line New Jalpaiguri–New Bongaigaon section Tatanagar–Bilaspur section
Bihar	Bakhtiyarpur–Tilaiya line Barauni–Katihar section Barauni–Samastipur section Fatuha–Tilaiya line Gaya–Kiul line Mokama–Barauni section Muzaffarpur–Gorakhpur line (via Hajipur, Raxaul and Sitamarhi) Muzaffarpur–Gorakhpur main line Muzaffarpur–Sitamarhi section Muzaffarpur–Hajipur section Narkatiaganj–Bhikhna Thori branch line Neora–Jatdumari–Daniyawan–Bihar Sharif–Sheikhpura line Patna–Gaya line Patna–Mughalsarai section Patna–Sonepur–Hajipur section Raxaul–Sagauli line Samastipur–Muzaffarpur section
Jharkhand	Barkakana–Netaji S.C.Bose Gomoh line Barkakana–Muri–Chandil line Dhanbad–Chandrapura line Railways in Jharia Coalfield Koderma–Hazaribagh–Barkakana–Ranchi line Madhupur–Giridih–Koderma line Netaji S.C.Bose Gomoh–Hatia line
Odisha	Khurda Road–Bolangir line Cuttack–Sambalpur line
West Bengal	Ahmadpur–Katwa line Alipurduar–Bamanhat branch line Andal–Sainthia branch line Andal–Sitarampur loop line Bandel–Katwa line Bankura–Masagram line Bardhaman–Asansol section Bardhaman–Katwa line Barharwa–Azimganj–Katwa loop Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Eklakhi–Balurghat branch line Haldibari–New Jalpaiguri line Howrah–Barddhaman main line Howrah–Bardhaman chord Howrah–Kharagpur line Kharagpur–Bankura–Adra line New Mal–Changrabandha–New Cooch Behar line Santragachi–Amta branch line Sealdah Main and North section Calcutta Chord link line Kolkata Circular Railway Sealdah–Bangaon line Sealdah–Ranaghat–Gede line Ranaghat–Krishnanagar City–Lalgola line Sealdah South section Sheoraphuli–Bishnupur branch line

Suburban
rail transport

Monorail

Defunct lines

Revived/ Under revival	Ahmedpur–Katwa Railway Bankura–Damodar Railway Barasat–Basirhat Light Railway Burdwan–Katwa Railway Bakhtiarpur–Bihar Light Railway Futwah–Islampur Light Railway
Inactive	Bengal Provincial Railway East Coast State Railway Kalighat Falta Railway Mayurbhanj State Railway Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Patna–Digha Ghat line Parlakimedi Light Railway

Zones & Divisions

Eastern	Asansol Howrah Malda Sealdah
East Central	Danapur Dhanbad Mughalsarai Samastipur Sonpur
East Coast	Sambalpur Khurda Road Waltair
North Eastern	Varanasi
Northeast Frontier	Katihar Alipurduar
South Eastern	Adra Chakradharpur Kharagpur Ranchi

Production units/
workshops

Transit points
with Bangladesh

Active	Haldibari–Chilahati Singhabad–Rohanpur Radhikapur–Biral Gede–Darshana Petrapole–Benapole
Defunct	Mahisasan–Shahbajpur Changrabandha–Burimari Gitaldaha–Mogalhat

Indian railheads
near India–Nepal border

Railway companies

v t e Railways in Central India
Trunk lines	Howrah–Allahabad–Mumbai line Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line New Delhi–Chennai main line New Delhi–Mumbai main line
Branch lines/ sections	Bina–Katni line Tatanagar–Bilaspur section Bilaspur–Nagpur section Nagpur–Bhusawal section Allahabad–Jabalpur section Jabalpur–Bhusaval section Agra–Bhopal section Ujjain–Bhopal section Bhopal–Nagpur section Nagpur–Hyderabad line Narkhed–Amravati line Dalli Rajhara–Jagdalpur line Bilaspur–Katni line Indore–Gwalior line
Metro	Bhopal Metro Indore Metro
Defunct lines revived/under revival	Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway Rajputana–Malwa Railway Satpura Railway
Railway zones	South East Central Railway Western Railway West Central Railway
Railway divisions	Ratlam railway division Bhopal railway division Jabalpur railway division Bilaspur railway division Raipur railway division
Rail transport	Rail transport in Chhattisgarh Rail transport in Madhya Pradesh
See also	Indian Railways Bholu (mascot) Datia rail accident

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States

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