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Bengal Dooars Railway

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Industry
  
Railways

Defunct
  
1941

Services
  
Rail transport

Founded
  
1894

Area served
  
North Bengal

Headquarters
  
Domohani, British India

The Bengal Dooars Railway (shortened BDR) was one of the pioneering railway companies that operated from 1894 to 1941, in Bengal province of British India, connecting the Dooars with its junction with Eastern Bengal Railway at Lalmonirhat with locations up to the foot of the Himalayas near the border with Bhutan.

History

The Bengal Dooars Railway was formed in 1893 and amalgamated with the Eastern Bengal Railway in 1951.

References

Bengal Dooars Railway Wikipedia