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The '''East Coast State Railway''' (ECSR) was a guaranteed company formed in 1890 to undertake the running construction and working of a railway line on the line built between from [[BhopalBezwada]], (Vijaywada) junction point of [[GwaliorSouthern Mahratta Railway]] and to join the [[Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway]] at [[Cuttack]]. It also provided an interchange with the metre gauge(MG) [[CawnporeBellary-Kistna State Railway]]at Kistna.

== Characteristics History==In 1899 the Survey of Rail line was ordered by the Government of [[Madras]]. The construction of this broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line in the title of East Coast Railway was sanctioned in 1890.

The route included the construction of the [[Kistna Bridge, Bezwada(ECR)| Kistna Bridge at Bezwada]] to cross the River Kistna. This bridge was designed by Sir [[Alexander Meadows Rendel|Alexander Rende]]l with [[Francis Joseph Edward Spring|F J E Spring]] as Engineer-in-Chief and [[Ernest Ifill Shadbolt]] as Executive Engineer on construction. The ECSR opened the line from [[Cuttack]] via Khurda Road to [[Puri]] in 1893, having a comparatively brief existence before being divided.[[Francis Joseph Edward Spring]] was Manager of the ECSR at this time.