Dehri Rohtas Light Railway
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| Gauge : | 762 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Dehri Rohtas Light Railway (DRLR) was a 67 km long narrow-gauge railway with a 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge between Dehri-on-Sone and Tiura Pipara Dih in the state of Bihar , India.
history
The Dehri Rohtas Light Railway was founded in 1907 as the Dehri Rohtas Tramway Company and was co-financed by Octavius Steel & Company from Calcutta . The original contract was to build a 40 km long feeder line from Rohtas to Dehri-on-Sone on the Delhi- Calcutta route of the East Indian Railway. Soon after, the railway company was founded as a small railway company to acquire the assets of the then-closed Dwara-Therria Light Railway in Assam .
The DRLR was opened to traffic in 1911. It boomed between 1913 and 1914 when it carried over 50,000 passengers and 90,000 tons of cargo, with freight traffic consisting mainly of marble and limestone. In 1927, a 2.5 km branch line was added to the Rohtasgarh Fortress in Rohtas. Rohtas Industries extended the route by a further 27 km to Tiura Pipradih.
Passenger and freight transport
At its peak, the DRLR operated two passenger trains a day in each direction from Dehri-on-Sone and Tiura Pipradih, a distance of 67 km. The railway also operated marble and limestone freight to the main line in Dehri.
Locomotives
The DRLR operated very different locomotives. At first they used 0-6-2 tank locomotives, three of which were taken over in 1909 after the Dwara-Therria Railway was closed. They also used 0-6-0, 0-4-0 ( Sentinel ), and 0-6-4 tank locomotives. After the war-related increase in traffic, the railway needed up to eight new tank locomotives of the 2-6-2 class of the ZB class, which were procured in equal parts by Hudswell Clarke and Krauss-Maffei . The railroad also acquired several locomotives, including the Hudswell Clarke-built 2-8-4 A / 1 class tank locomotives that came from the Central Railway's Pulgaon - Arvi route in 1959 . Other unique locomotives of the DRLR were the various 2-6-2 K-class tank locomotives from Kerr Stuart and 2-6-4 tank locomotives from Henschel originally operating on the Kalka - Simla route , which came from the Shahdara - Saharanpur Light Railway.
closure
The DRLR was shut down on July 16, 1984 due to the decline in transport volume due to the increasing road traffic from the 1970s.
Web links
- Supreme Court Cases: Kuchwar Lime and Stone Co vs. M / s Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Co. Ltd. & ANR .
Individual evidence
- ↑ IPFS: Dehri Rohtas Light Railway. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
- ^ In the Supreme Court of India: Civil Appeal Nos. 3250 with 3249 of 1983, Decided On: March 12, 1992, M / s. Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Company Limited vs. District Board, Bhojpur and others and District Board, Shahabad and others. ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IR History: Part III (1900-1947) . IRFCA. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ↑ M / s Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Company vs District Board Bhojpur & others and District Board Shahabad & others . Manupatra. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ^ IR History: Part V (1970-1995) . IRFCA. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
Coordinates: 24 ° 54 ′ 51.8 ″ N , 84 ° 11 ′ 8.9 ″ E