#Odisha #ECoR #HistoryThe present East Coast Railway is a truncated version of the earlier East Coast Railway that was opened to traffic more than a century back i.e. on 1st November 1888. In 1889, survey of Rail line on the East Coast from Vijaywada junction point of Southern Maratha Railway and Nizam’s Guaranteed State Railway to Cuttack was ordered by the Government of Madras. In 1890, the construction of this line in the title of "East Coast Railway" was sanctioned.