Jessore – Jhenidah Light Railway

Jessore – Jhenidah Light Railway
Route length:	46.5 km + 12.5 km = 59 km
Gauge :	762 mm ( narrow gauge )
Maximum slope :	6.6  ‰
Minimum radius :	116 m
Legend km 0 Jessore Junction 6.4 Khairtola 8.8 Churamankati 12.0 Haibatpur 17.7 Muradgarh 18.9 Mithapukharia 22.5 Pirojpur 28.9 Dulalmundia 30.5 Shibnagore Junction +7.2 Gheeghati + 12.5 Kotchandpur 36.6 Prasannanagar 39.4 Bishaikhali 46.5 Jhenidah Swell:

The Jessore – Jhenidah Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 762 mm (2 feet 3 inches ) in British India , now Bangladesh .

The route from Jessore to Jhenidah ran in the administrative unit Khulna in the southwest of the country. It was opened in 1913 with a route length of 46.5 km. At the same time, the Kotchandpur Branch called, 12.5 km long branch from Kaliganj (today: Shibnagore ) to Kotchandpur was opened, resulting in a total route length of 59 km. The line was built and operated by the Jessore Jhenidah Railway Company , a private company supported by the District Board of Jessore that was founded in 1913.

The Indian Secretary of State confirmed that the new company had all of these rights and concessions to run the route on a strip of maximum 6 feet wide on one side of the public road from Jessore to Jhenidah, Kalinganji and Kotchandupr build and use. The tracks consisted of 30 pound flat foot rails , most of which were laid on Salbaum sleepers . The track bed consisted of bricks for almost the entire length. The route was not fenced. The narrowest curves had a radius of 116 m (382 feet). The nominal gradient was 1: 150 (6.6 ‰).

The railroad's management had a bad reputation. In an official report from 1915 it was mentioned that the staff could not even name one of their superiors by name.

On September 24, 1924 was Jessore Jhenidah Railway Company liquidated, with all the assets and the rights and privileges to the Jhenidah Railway Syndicate Ltd. were transferred.

According to unconfirmed reports, the management of the Jessore-Jhenidah Railway was later taken over by McLeod's Light Railways (McLR), a subsidiary of the London-based management agency McLeod Russell & Co. Ltd. On July 1, 1967, the McLeod's Light Railways were combined with the South Eastern Railway . The railway line was dismantled in 1969.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jim Fergusson: Railway Stations Lists: Bangladesh Railways. (PDF) railwaystationlists.co.uk, accessed November 1, 2017 . 
2. ^ ^{A b c} "Administration Report on the Railways in India - corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; P. 230 . Retrieved February 28, 2016 and November 1, 2017.
3. ^ British Library India Office Records L / F / 8/17/1334 “Jessore Jhenidah Railway Company Limited, Indenture; 1913. ”
4. ↑ PEA-2292: Jessore-Jhenidah Railway. In: Fibiwiki - an encyclopaedia about life in British India.
5. ^ British Library India Office Records L / F / 8/20/1761 “Jhenidah Railway Syndicate Limited, Contract for the management, maintenance and working of the Jessore-Jhenidah Railway; 1930 ”
6. ^ McLeod's Light Railways . Retrieved August 22, 2009 and November 3, 2017.
7. ^ "Indian Railways History 1913" IRFCA Indian Railways Fan Club " ; Retrieved February 28, 2016.
8. ↑ Bibek Debroy: McLeod and Bagnall - The original McLeod and Company rand McLeod's Light Railways in the vicinity of Kolkata. McLeod's ordered locomotives from Bagnall and the first lot turned up in India in 1917. Business Standard, April 21, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
9. ^ Indian Railway - At a Glance. Chapter 4. Retrieved November 3, 2017. p. 120.
10. ↑ Bankura-Damodar Railway (BDR) . SE Railway. Archived from the original on August 27, 2005 and November 3, 2017. Retrieved on August 22, 2009.

Coordinates: 23 ° 9 ′ 15.4 ″  N , 89 ° 12 ′ 31 ″  E