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The original section from [[Wadhwan]] via [[Wankaner]] to [[Rajkot]] was built as a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) Tramway . Construction started in 1884, the line was 79 miles(127km) and opened to traffic in 1886
<ref name=Admin>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n202/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 194 (pdf202)]; Retrieved 21 May 2020</ref> forming the ‘Wadhwan-Rajkot Section’.
<br>* The original terminus at [[Wadhwan]] was on the south side of the [[Bhogava River Bridge|Bhogava River]] at [[Surendranager ]]. The Agreement stated the Tramway would not link to the ‘[[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway ]]’(BB&CIR) <ref name=1694Page2> British Library IOR L/PS/13/1694 No 33 File 30 (part 1) 30 ‘Memorial of the Thakor of Sayla against the decision for Morvi to claim compensation’ page 2 </ref> and also not link to the ‘[[Bhavnagar State Railway]]’ or the ‘[[Dhrangadhra Railway]]’.
<br>*The Tramway passed via Dolia and Sayla through various small States, none of which received any compensation from the Morvi Durbar to which they were legally entitled. The Wadhwan Durbar refused the Tramway entry into [[Wadhwan]] without an acceptance that Wadhwan owned the rights of passage over the [[Bhogava River Bridge]], and that such duties as required would be paid<ref name=1694Page2/>.
