Dehri Rohtas Light Railway - Vidyut P Maurya END OF A NARROW GAUGE - DEHRI ROHTAS LIGHT RAILWAY - Vidyut Prakash Maurya Email – vidyutp@gmail.com ( IHC Membership No. AM 18959A) ABSTRACT DEHRI ROHTAS LIGHT RAILWAY was a narrow gauge railway system running in south Bihar. Dehri Rohtas Light Railway, also known as DRLR, was a 2 ft 6 in or 762 MM narrow gauge railway network between Dehri and Tiura PiparaDih in the state of Bihar, India. Started in 1911, It was running till 1984 in old Shahabad district or new Rohtas district of Bihar. Actually DRLR was a subsidiary unit of Rohtas Industries, and was used to bring raw materials, especially limestone from hills, for the cement factory of Rohtas industries at Dalmianagar. Dalmianagar was a big industrial town of Bihar in post independence era. But this railway system was operating passenger trains also, which was the main transport for humans on this route till the early 1980s. START OF DRLR Dehri on Sone or Dalmianagar town lies on the bank of the Sone River with an average elevation of 99 metres (324 feet). Dehri on Sone is a Railway station on the Gaya-Mughalsarai broad gauge railway section of Grand Chord railways route. It is one of the important railway section of Indian railway network. 1