Search Forum
Blog Entry# 2980043
Posted: Jan 08 2018 (02:03)
9 Responses
Last Response: Jan 17 2018 (10:34)
9 Responses
Last Response: Jan 17 2018 (10:34)
Other News
SteelCityRF^~ 3184 news posts
The country has seen 16 governments and 38 railway ministers in its 70 years of Independence, but the most ill-fated rail project between Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand...
4 Public Posts - Mon Jan 08, 2018
2 Public Posts - Tue Jan 09, 2018
Thanks for taking the efforts and sharing the information, sir!
You are partly correct. The North-South MG link was in consideration from 1904 itself. While the route was opened fully in 1928, construction started before 1910. KRNT-DHNE section was opened in 1909. PAU-Hingoli was also constructed in parallel and opened in 1912. After that there was a long gap. As I said, the onset of World war 1 and change in British priorities put these projects on the backseat and further construction went on only in bits and pieces. SC-MBNR was delayed by the war and completed in 1916, but the remainder of the link was only completed 12 years later. On the North end...
more...
You are partly correct. The North-South MG link was in consideration from 1904 itself. While the route was opened fully in 1928, construction started before 1910. KRNT-DHNE section was opened in 1909. PAU-Hingoli was also constructed in parallel and opened in 1912. After that there was a long gap. As I said, the onset of World war 1 and change in British priorities put these projects on the backseat and further construction went on only in bits and pieces. SC-MBNR was delayed by the war and completed in 1916, but the remainder of the link was only completed 12 years later. On the North end...
more...
2 Public Posts - Wed Jan 17, 2018