Eastern Punjab Railway

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Eastern Punjab Railway was a former railway system in British India that operated in the eastern part of the Punjab region before being absorbed into the Northern Railway zone after independence and partition.

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Label Occurrences
Eastern Punjab Railway canonical 3

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Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf railway company ⓘ
railway system ⓘ
country British India ⓘ
dissolved 1952 ⓘ
fate merged into Northern Railway zone ⓘ
formedFrom portions of North Western Railway remaining in India after partition ⓘ
headquartersLocation Delhi ⓘ
historicalContext created after partition of India in 1947 ⓘ
historicalPeriod post-partition India ⓘ
inception 1947 ⓘ
languageOfOperations English ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ
mergedInto Northern Railway ⓘ
operatedBy Indian Railways ⓘ
operatedInCountryAfter1947 India ⓘ
operatedInRegion Punjab region ⓘ
eastern Punjab ⓘ
ownerAfter1947 Government of India ⓘ
partOf Indian railway network ⓘ
partOfReorganization zonal reorganization of Indian Railways in 1951–1952 ⓘ
predecessor North Western Railway ⓘ
railGauge broad gauge ⓘ
railwayZoneFormationRelatedTo Northern Railway formation in 1952 ⓘ
reasonForDissolution reorganization of Indian Railways into zones in 1952 ⓘ
servedCity Ambala ⓘ
Amritsar ⓘ
Delhi ⓘ
Jalandhar ⓘ
Ludhiana ⓘ
servedFunction freight transport ⓘ
passenger transport ⓘ
servedState Haryana ⓘ
Punjab, India ⓘ
linked to: Punjab
servedTerritory Delhi ⓘ
status defunct ⓘ
successor Northern Railway ⓘ
Northern Railway zone ⓘ
trackOwnership state-owned ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northern Railway zone → formedByMergerOf → Eastern Punjab Railway ⓘ
Northern Railway → formedByMergerOf → Eastern Punjab Railway ⓘ
North Western State Railway → successor → Eastern Punjab Railway ⓘ