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Hindupur-Yesvantpur Railway

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'''Hindupur-Yesvantpur Railway'''
This line was originally known as the [[Bangalore Hindupur Railway|Bangalore Hindupur Railway - ''see separate page'']]
Also known as the '''Hindupur (Yesvantpur-Mysore Frontier) Railway''' <br>and the '''Yesvantpur-Mysore Frontier Railway'''
This metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line was originally owned by the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Mysore State]] and was a portion of the [[Guntakal]] to [[Bangalore]] connection.<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/itemsstream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf #page/n98/mode/1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 90]; Retrieved 18 Dec 201512 Nov 2018</ref>
Also This railway also included the [[Yesvantpur Dod-Ballapur Railway|'''YesvantpurDod-Dodballepur RailwayBallapur Section''' ]] section ''- see separate page'' The line opened in 1893 and had 9 stations and was worked by the [[ Southern Mahratta Railway]] (SMR) .  On 1 July 1893 two sections of the MSR, the Bangalore-Harihar and Bangalore-Hidupur Railways were transferred by the State of Mysore to the Government of India, giving full jurisdiction and operation <ref>British Library ‘India Office Records’ IOR/R/2/Box 4/35 “Mysore Govt. cede jurisdiction over the Bangalore - Hindupur & the Bangalore - Harihar railway lines. Question of jurisdiction over the Kolar Gold Fields Railway”; 1893-94</ref>. The Railway continued to be operated by the SMR. From 1 Jan 1938, the lines leased to M&SMR, which included the ‘Bangalore Hindupur Section’ reverted to the control of the State of Mysore, creating a homogenous railway of just under 740 miles. In 1950, MSR was nationalised and in 1951 became part of Southern Railway, one of the then newly formed zones of Indian Railways.
==Records==
<ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 23 Jan 2016</ref>
gives the following: -
*'''L/F/8/20/1733 ''' “Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company Limited, Indenture supplemental to that dated 2nd December 1899 for working and maintenance of theYesvantpurthe Yesvantpur-Hindupur Railway Government of H.H. the Maharajah of Mysore; 1925” ==Further Information==See '''[[Bangalore Hindupur Railway]]''' <br>and '''[[Mysore State Railway]]''' and '''[[ Southern Mahratta Railway]]''' up to 1907<br>See '''[[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]''' from 1907   
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