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NepalRailroads
The railroad system was used by an average of 1.5
million
passengers annually from 1985 to 1989. Goods transported
averaged
between 15,000 and 19,000 tons annually during that same
period.
Although service in Nepal was limited, lines south of the
border
ran through India.
Railroad service was initiated in 1928 and generally
connected
the commercial centers of the Tarai with Indian railheads
near the
border. The Janakpur Railway, headquartered in Jaynagar,
India, was
a fifty-three-kilometer narrow-gauge railroad between
Jaynagar and
Janakpur and Bijalpura in Nepal. As of the late 1980s, its
equipment consisted of ten steam locomotives, twenty-five
passenger
coaches and vans, and fifty-two freight wagons. The Nepal
Government Railway consisted of forty-eight kilometers
linking
Amlekhganj to the railhead in Raxaul, India, and was
equipped with
seven steam locomotives, twelve coaches, and eighty-two
wagons. The
opening of a north-south highway, however, made the
railroad
service from Raxaul to Amlekhganj somewhat obsolete. The
Sixth
Five-Year Plan provided for construction of a rail line
between
Udaipur Garhi in eastern Nepal, and Calcutta.
Data as of September 1991
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