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[[File: Shadipalli-Balotra Railway.png|thumb| Shadipalli-Balotra Railway]]
The  '''Shadipalli-Balotra Railway''' was recorded in the 1898 [[Public Works Department]] Report as follows:-
<blockquote>“A length of 204 miles of line on the metre gauge is under construction from Shadipali to Balotra in Rajputana and when opened will connect the Rajputana-Malwa metre gauge system of the Bombay,Bbaroda and Central India Railway with the North Western State Railway” <ref name=PWD>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208633/page/n32 “Summary of the principal measures of the viceroyalty of the Earl of Elgin in the Public Works Department Jan 1894 to Dec 1898” Page 19, Para 64 pdf 32]; Retrieved 7 May  2019</ref>.</blockquote>

The [[Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway]] (JBR) opened the metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]])
‘JBR Main Line’ westward from [[Balotra]] to [[Barmer]], 60 miles(97km), in May 1899, and a further  74 miles(119km) in December 1900 to the Jodhpur Frontier. This section classified as the ‘JBR Jodhpur Section’
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n194/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 185 (pdf194)]; Retrieved 7 May  2019</ref>.

The section from the Jodhpur Frontier to [[Shadipalli]], 68½ miles(110km), described as the ‘JBR British Section’ also opened in December 1900 
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n197/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 188 (pdf1974) ]; Retrieved 7 May  2019</ref>. Thus completing the ‘Shadipalli-Balotra Railway’.

This provided the link between the [[Rajputana-Malwa Railway]](RMR) section of the [[Bombay, Baroda Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) and the [[North Western Railway]](NWR); as specified in the 1898 Report  <ref name=PWD/>.

==Further Information==
See '''[[Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway]] '''

== References ==
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