reilly Railway on 1 January 1891. The Lucknow-Bareilly Railway was owned by the Government of India and worked by the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway.
The Oudh and Tirhut Railway company operated the railway line until 1943 and managed a number of lines until 1943, when it was amalgamated with the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway and the Lucknow Bareilly Railway. It became the Oudh-Tirhut Railway. All existing contracts were terminated and it became an entirely state-owned enterprise.
The Oudh and Tirhut Railway was formed on 1 January 1943 by the amalgamation of the Bengal and North Western Railway, the Tirhut Railway (BNW worked), the Mashrak-Thawe Extension Railway,(BNW worked), the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway and the Lucknow-Bareilly Railway (R&K worked). The Oudh and Tirhut Railway was later renamed the Oudh Tirhut Railway and merged with the Assam Railway to form the North Eastern Railway on 14 April 1952.
Its headquarters was at Gorakhpur. On 14 April 1952, the Oudh and Tirhut Railway was amalgamated with the Assam Railway and the Kanpur-Achnera section of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway to form North Eastern Railway, one of the 16 zones of the Indian Railways.
Currently, six railway stations serve the city –
Bareilly Junction (serving both the Broad and Standard gauge),
C.B. Ganj Station (serving the Broad gauge),
Chenheti Station (serving the Broad gauge),
City Station (serving the Metre gauge),
Izzatnagar Station (serving the Meter Gauge & Broad gauge-recently introduced).
Bhojipura Station (serving the Meter Gauge & Broad gauge-recently introduced)
Bareilly lies on Moradabad-Lucknow route. Trains from the north (Jammu Tawi, Amritsar, etc.) and Delhi towards the east and northeast (Gorakhpur, Barauni, Howrah, Guwahati, Dibrugarh, etc.) pass through Bareilly railway station. Bareilly also lies on the route from Uttarakhand to Kasganj and Mathura. Many trains
