Yesvantpur Dod-Ballapur Railway

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The Yesvantpur Dod-Ballapur Railway was a section of 20 miles(32km), constructed by the Princely Mysore State Durbar as a metre gauge(MG) section of the ‘Mysore State Railway’. The section from Yesvantpur to Dod-Ballapur(see spelling note) opened in 1892 [1] as part of the Hindupur-Yesvantpur Railway and was leased to the Southern Mahratta Railway (SMR). In 1907, the SMR transformed itself into the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway (M&SMR), with the lease following.

From Yesvantpur the first 6½ miles(10km) to Yelahanka was in 1917 modified to mixed gauge with the addition of a third rail. This was to enable the Bangalore-Chikballapur Light Railway a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) line to share the track over this short section [1][2]


Spelling Note
Dod-Ballapur’ is the spelling given in the ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India’, v. 6, p. 366 [3], this we take to be the definitive spelling
‘Dodballapur’ is used in the 1918 ‘Administration Report for Railways’
‘Doddaballapur ‘ is the modern name
‘Dodballepur’ is incorrectly used in some records

Further Information

See Mysore State Railway

and Southern Mahratta Railway up to 1907

and Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway thereafter

References