Porbandar State Railway
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| Porbandar State Railway | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Line of route | ||
| Jamjodhpur to Porbandar | ||
| Gauge / mileage | ||
| Metre gauge | 41 miles (1922) | |
| Timeline | ||
| 1888 | Opened to traffic | |
| Key locations | ||
| Presidency | Bombay | |
| Stations | Jamjodhpur, Porbandar | |
| System agency | ||
| 1888 | Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway | |
| 1919 | Gondal Railways | |
| How to interpret this infobox | ||
The Porbandar State Railway (PSR) was a metre gauge line owned by the Princely Porbandar State and intially worked by the Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway(BGJPR).
From 1911 until 1919 it was worked jointly with Gondal State thus forming the Gondal-Porbandar Railway
From 1919 it was worked by Gondal Railways(GSR) until 1948 when it became part of the newly formed Saurashtra Railway.
Records
An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [1] gives the following:-
- L/PS/10/257; “ File 1073/1912 Railways: Native States; Gondal-Porbandar State Railway”; 1912-19
- R/2/635/288 ; “File 1933 C/589-A Gondal-Porbandar-Grant of running powers to thePorbandar State railway over the Gondal Rly.”; 1933
References
- ↑ “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search; Retrieved 11 Apr 2016
