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Egyptian Delta Light Railways
UK business based in London, founded in 18981
The Egyptian Delta Light Railways was a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge Egyptian narrow gauge railway. It followed on two railway concessions in the Nile Delta granted by the Egyptian government. The first was a monopoly for the construction and exploitation of narrow-gauge agricultural railways in the western and central Nile Delta governorates of El-Behera (Beheira) and Al-Gharbeya (Gharbia) granted to a British company, Messrs.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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The Egyptian Delta Light Railways was a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge Egyptian narrow gauge railway. It followed on two railway concessions in the Nile Delta granted by the Egyptian government. The first was a monopoly for the construction and exploitation of narrow-gauge agricultural railways in the western and central Nile Delta governorates of El-Behera (Beheira) and Al-Gharbeya (Gharbia) granted to a British company, Messrs. John Birch and Co. Limited, by a concession dated 27 March 1896. These rights were transferred in 1897 to the Société Égyptienne des Chemins de Fer Agricoles, which began construction at Baheira, in 1897 and 1898, of the first 25 kilometres of the network.2
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