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South Eastern Railway |
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With headquarters in Garden Reach in Kolkata, West Bengl, the South Eastern Railway is one of the 16 railway zones in India. Kharagpur is a division of South Eastern Railway. It reorganized Adra and Chakradharpur divisions and the new Ranchi division. The history of South Eastern Railway dates back to 1887 when the Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR) was incorporated. This was done to take over from the Nagpur Chattisgarh Railway and to convert the line to Broad Gauze. In 1888 the work was completed and by 1891 the extension of the main line from Nagpur to Asansol was completed.
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Bilaspur and Umaria coal mine were connected by a 161 mile long branch line (258 km) and this was linked to the existing line from Umaria to Katni. By the first half of the 20th century work on the Bengal Nagpur Railway lines progressed steadily. Bu the turn of the twentieth century work on the Calcutta-Bombay and Calcutta-Madras lines were completed. The Talcher coalfields were connected by a railway line starting from Nergundi in 1921. The East Coast and the Central Province were connected in 1931 by the Raipur-Vizianagram line. By the end of the 1930s the BNR owned the largest narrow gauge network in the country. In January 1943 the BNR was nationalized, and continued to be called by that name until 1952, when it joined the Eastern Railways. In 1955, the initial merger dissolved and the existence of South Eastern Railway came into being.
The distinctive identity of South Eastern Railway creates a space comity of zonal railways. It ministers to all the major power houses spread across the length and breadth of the country and maintaining the supply chain of coal to steel and other core industries.
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