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{{Short description|Indian railway}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox company
|name = Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway
|logo = Indian Railway Heritage Logo-32 – Oudh & Rohailkhand Railway (ER).jpg
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|foundation =1872
|defunct= 1925
|predecessor= [[Indian Branch Railway Company]]
|successor= [[East Indian Railway Company]]
|location_city = Lucknow
|location_country = [[India]]
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|area_served = Northern India
|industry = [[Railways]]
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|services = [[Rail transport]]
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'''Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway''' was an extensive railway network in North India, mostly north of the [[Ganges]], starting from [[Benares]] and subsequently up to [[Delhi]]. {{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}

== History ==
[[File:Oude and Rohilkund steam locomotive of 0-6-2 type.jpg|thumb|"Oude and Rohilkund. [[0-6-2]] Type"]]
[[File:Steam Trolly for the Oude and Rohilkund Railway CR.jpg|thumb|"Steam Trolly for the Oude and Rohilkund Railway, constructed by Joseph Green Cooke, Locomotive and Carriage Superintendent"]]
[[File:Engine for the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway, 1865.jpg|thumb|[[0-8-0]] engine for the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway, 1865]]

The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway was formed in 1872 with the assets of the [[Indian Branch Railway Company]] and the government guarantee. It had its headquarters in Lucknow.<ref name=fibis>{{cite web| url = http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Oudh_and_Rohilkhand_Railway |title = Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway| publisher= fibis| access-date = 30 May 2013}}</ref><ref name=orr>{{cite web | url = http://management.ebooks6.com/The-Oudh-Rohilkhand-Railway-download-w23852.pdf | title = The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway | publisher = Management E-books6 | access-date = 30 May 2013 }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.irfca.org/articles/manning/kumaon.html |title = The Rohilkhand and Kumaon| first=Ian|last=Manning| publisher= IRFCA| access-date = 30 May 2013}}</ref> It built lines from [[Lucknow]] to [[Hardoi]], Lucknow to [[Barabanki city|Barabanki]] and [[Moradabad]] to [[Chandausi]] in 1872 and extended the last to [[Bareilly]] in 1873 It built a line from Varanasi to Lucknow in 1874, with an extension to [[Faizabad|Fyzabad]] known as Fyzabad Loop.<ref name="orr"/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history2.html|title = IR History: Early days II (1870=1889) | access-date = 30 May 2013}}</ref>

The 4 miles long [[Broad gauge]] line from Burhwal to Bahramghat was opened on 1 April 1872, as part of the Bahramghat branch of the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway. the line got closed around 1943. The 17 miles long Burwhal-Barabanki [[metre gauge]] line was opened 1 April 1872 as part of the Bahramghat branch of the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway. Upon conversion to mixed gauge, the metre gauge track formed part of the [[Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway]], which was managed as part of the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway.

The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway was merged into the East Indian Railway on 1 July 1925 but this section of the Cawnpore-Burhwal Railway was worked by the [[Bengal and North Western Railway]] and was transferred to the [[Oudh and Tirhut Railway]] on 1 January 1943. The 2-mile-long metre gauge line from Benares Cant. to Benares City was opened between 15 March and 1 April 1899 as the Benares City branch of the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway. The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway was absorbed by the East Indian Railway on 1 July 1925 but this line was worked by the Bengal and North Western Railway and its successors from opening and was transferred to the [[North Eastern Railway (India)|North Eastern Railway]] on 27 February 1953.

The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway built the [[Malviya Bridge|Dufferin Bridge]] over the [[Ganges]] in 1883 with [[Frederick Walton (engineer)|Frederick Thomas Granville Walton]] as Chief Engineer, and its line was connected to [[East Indian Railway Company]]’s line at [[Mughalsarai Junction railway station|Mughalsarai]].<ref name=orr/> It extended its main line from Moradabad to [[Saharanpur]] in 1881-86 and a branch line was opened from [[Laksar]] to [[Haridwar]] in 1883. The Lucknow-[[Rae Bareilly]] extension was completed in 1893.<ref name=orr/>

The main line of Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway used to run from Varanasi to Saharanpur via Lucknow, [[Hardoi railway station|Hardoi]] Bareilly, Chandausi and Moradabad. With the opening of the Bareilly-Moradabad link via [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]] in 1894, the main line distance was shortened and the route via Chandausi came to be known as Chandausi chord. A branch line linked it to [[Aligarh]].<ref name=orr/> The [[Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh|Ghaziabad]]-Moradabad link was established in 1898. The Varanasi-Lucknow link via Rae Bareilly shortened the main line further.<ref name=orr/> In 1888, the Government of India took over the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway making it a state railway.<ref name=orr/> In 1925, it was merged with the [[East Indian Railway Company]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history3.html|title = IR History: Part III (1900=1947)| publisher=IRFCA | access-date = 30 May 2013}}</ref>

System mileage was {{convert|1910|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} of {{Track gauge|5ft6in|lk=on}} [[broad gauge]] {{convert|129|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} of {{RailGauge|1000mm}} wide [[metre gauge]].<ref name=fibis/>

==Locomotives==
By the end of 1877 the company owned 88 steam locomotives, 331 coaches and 2244 goods wagons.<ref>{{cite book |title= Archiv für Post und Telegraphie, Band 7 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=gvs-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA62 |year=1879 |publisher= Reichsdruckerei, Berlin |language=German |pages=62–63 |isbn= }}</ref>

<gallery>
Steam locomotive of the Oudh and Rohilkand Railway.JPG|Steam locomotive No 11, [[0-6-0]]
Steam locomotive 'Lucknow' of the Oudh and Rohilkand Railway.JPG|Steam locomotive [[4-4-0]] named 'Lucknow'
Six-ton crane tank locomotive for the Oudh and Rohilkund Railway.jpg|The crane could lift and skew a load of 6 t at a radius of 14 ft (4,25 m)
</gallery>

== Conversion to broad gauge ==

The railway lines were converted to {{RailGauge|1676mm|lk=on}} [[broad gauge]] in 2017.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Railways in Northern India}}

[[Category:Metre-gauge railways in India]]
[[Category:Defunct railway companies of India]]
[[Category:History of rail transport in Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Railway companies established in 1872]]
[[Category:Railway companies disestablished in 1888]]
[[Category:History of Awadh]]
[[Category:Rohilkhand]]

Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway - Revision history

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