Tinnevelly-Tiruchendur Railway
The Tinnevelly-Tiruchendur Railway was first proposed in 1908, to be a metre gauge(MG) line from Tinnevelly to the pilgrimage site at Tiruchendur [1].
The line was sanctioned for construction in July 1915 by the South Indian Railway(SIR) for the Tinnevelly District Board. The line was to run from Tinnevelly to Tiruchendur, a length of 38 miles (60km); the work that was in progress was "stopped owing to the abnormal conditions on account of the war." [2]
The MG line was finally opened in Feb 1923 as a metre gauge(MG) branch of the 'South Indian Railway'(SIR)[3]
At Tiruchendur there was an interchange the with the ‘Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway’ which was an extension of the ‘Kulasekharapatnam Tissianvillai Light Railway’ - see separate page
Further Information
See South Indian Railway
and SIR System Metre Gauge
References
- ↑ "Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908" Vol 23; page 373; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015
- ↑ "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 152; Retrieved 14 Feb 2016
- ↑ ”Marvels of the South Indian Railway 1859-1951” by Southern Railway, Chennai, July 2010 page 276
