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==History== | ==History== | ||
The railway line between {{stnlnk|Delhi Junction||Old Delhi}} and {{stnlnk|Meerut City||Meerut}} was constructed in 1864.<ref>[https:// | The railway line between {{stnlnk|Delhi Junction||Old Delhi}} and {{stnlnk|Meerut City||Meerut}} was constructed in 1864.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650 Indian Railways Construction and Progress in 1931], Retrieved 24 September 2020</ref> | ||
The [[Sind]], [[Punjab]] and [[Delhi]] railway completed the {{convert|483|km|mi|0|adj=mid|-long}} {{stnlnk|Amritsar}}–{{stnlnk|Ambala Cantonment Junction||Ambala}}–{{stnlnk|Saharanpur}}–{{stnlnk|Ghaziabad}} line in 1870 connecting {{stnlnk|Multan Cantonment||Multan}} (now in Pakistan) with {{stnlnk|Delhi Junction||Delhi}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=IR History: Early Days II (1870–1899) |url= http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history2.html| access-date=7 March 2014}}</ref> | The [[Sind]], [[Punjab]] and [[Delhi]] railway completed the {{convert|483|km|mi|0|adj=mid|-long}} {{stnlnk|Amritsar}}–{{stnlnk|Ambala Cantonment Junction||Ambala}}–{{stnlnk|Saharanpur}}–{{stnlnk|Ghaziabad}} line in 1870 connecting {{stnlnk|Multan Cantonment||Multan}} (now in Pakistan) with {{stnlnk|Delhi Junction||Delhi}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=IR History: Early Days II (1870–1899) |url= http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history2.html| access-date=7 March 2014}}</ref> | ||