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Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway

Logo: Manager/Curator of the Lucknow Locomotive Museum, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Metre-gauge railway in India

Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway (R&KR) was a metre-gauge railway in India covering a total network of 592 miles (953 km). It was owned and worked by the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway Company (registered 6 October 1882).2 It ceased to exist in 1943.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1882Founded1
  • Industryrail transport1
  • HeadquartersLondon1

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Offices of the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway Company - Lucknow 1870s
Photo: Unknown photographer Reproduced in: The Lucknow album : containing a series of fifty photographic views of Lucknow and its environs together with a large sized plan of the city by Alli, Darogha Ubbas; Baptist Mission Press (Calcutta, India), printer Published 1874 Publisher Calcutta : Printed by G.H, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway (R&KR) was a metre-gauge railway in India covering a total network of 592 miles (953 km). It was owned and worked by the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway Company (registered 6 October 1882).2

Timeline

  1. Jan 1, 1943Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1882Founded Founded1

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