Dehri Rohtas Light Railway

Dehri–Rohtas

0-6-0 T Baldwin steam locomotive No 50788 of December 1918.
It had 11" x 16" cylinders and 2' 7½" wheels.

Technical

Line length

72.6 kilometres (45.1 mi)

Track gauge

762 mm (2 ft 6 in)

Route map

Legend

				km
				0	Dehri-on-Sone, opened 1911
					Dehri City, eröffnet 1911
					Badihan Shankar Puri, opened 1911
					Indrapuri, opened 1911
					Tilauthu, opened 1911
					Tilauthu Bazar, opened 1911
					Tumba, opened 1911
					Ramdihara, opened 1911
					Banjari, opened 1911
				40	Rhotas, opened 1911
				42,5	Rohtasgarh, opened 1927
					Baulia Road
					Mahadevpuri Bhadara
					Nimahat
					Nauhatta Road
				67	Tiura Pipra Dih^[1]

Dehri Rohtas Light Railway (DRLR) was a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway line between Dehri-On-Sone and Tiura Pipara Dih in the state of Bihar, India.^[2]^[3]

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History

The Dehri Rohtas Light Railway started off as Dehri Rohtas Tramway Company in 1907 promoted by The Octavius Steel and Company of Calcutta. The original contract was to build a 40 km feeder line from Rohtas to the East Indian Railway's Delhi - Calcutta trunk route at Dehri-on-Sone. Soon thereafter, the tramway company was incorporated as a light railway in order to acquire the assets of the then defunct Dwara - Therria Light Railway in Assam. The DRLR opened to traffic in 1911 and was booming by 1913-14 when it carried over 50,000 passengers and 90,000 tons of freight, the goods traffic mainly consisting of marble and stone. In 1927, a 2.5 km spur was added to Rohtasgarh Fort from Rohtas. Rohtas Industries brought the line up to Tiura Pipradih by adding another 25 km to the DRLR, most of which passed through their property.

Operation

At its peak, the DRLR used to operate two daily passengers trains in each direction from Dehri-on-Sone and Tiura Pipradih, a run of 67 km. Apart from this the railway carried marble and stone traffic to the mainline at Dehri on sone.

Locomotives

The DRLR operated a very mixed bag of locomotives. It started off with 0-6-2 tank locomotives, three of which arrived from the Dwara - Therria Railway after it closed in 1909. In the pre IRS years, it also used 0-6-0, 0-4-0 (Sentinel) and 0-6-4 variants of tank locomotives. After the wartime increase in traffic the railway brought as many as eight new ZB class 2-6-2 tender locomotives, orders for which were equally split between Hudswell Clarke and Krauss Maffei. The railway also purchased several locomotives, second hand, notable among which were the A/1 class 2-8-4 T locomotives built by Hudswell Clarke that arrived from the Pulgaon - Arvi system of Central Railway in 1959. Other unique locomotives that operated on DRLR were the several ex. Kalka - Simla Railway K class 2-6-2 T engines by Kerr Stuart and 2-6-4 T engines by Henschel that arrived from the Shahdara–Saharanpur Light Railway.

In 1936, the company owned six locomotives, three railcars, eleven coaches and 132 goods wagons.^[4]

Classification

It was labeled as a Class III railway according to Indian Railway Classification System of 1926.^[5]^[6]

Closure

Due to the decline in the traffic and competition to road in the late 1970s, the DRLR succumbed and closed to traffic on July 16, 1984.^[7]

References

^ In the Supreme Court of India: Civil Appeal Nos. 3250 with 3249 of 1983, Decided On: 12. March 1992, M/s. Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Company Limited vs. District Board, Bhojpur and others and District Board, Shahabad and others.
^ "IR History: Part III (1900-1947)". IRFCA. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
^ "M/s Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Company vs District Board Bhojpur & others and District Board Shahabad & others". Manupatra. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
^ World Survey of Foreign Railways. Transportation Division, Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Washington D.C. 1936. p. 225.
^ "Indian Railway Classification". Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ World Survey of Foreign Railways. Transportation Division, Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Washington D.C. 1936. p. 223–226d.
^ "IR History: Part V (1970-1995)". IRFCA. Retrieved 19 June 2013.

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