Eastern Punjab Railway

E465593

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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Punjab Railway canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

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

How these facts were elicited

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