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→BG Lines - owned and worked by Madras Railway (MR): 'Bezwada-Madras Railway' added
**'Mettupalaiyam Branch Line'. Constructed, owned and worked by MR up to 31 Dec 1907, then transferred to SIR. Podanor Junction to Coimbatore and Mettupalaiyam. Opened 1873, 26 miles(41km) ) <ref name=AdminSIR/> .
**'Palghat Branch Line'. Palakkad Junction(Olavakode) to Palghat. Constructed, owned and worked by MR up to 31 Dec 1907, then transferred to SIR. Opened 1888, 2.5 miles(4km) <ref name=AdminSIR/>.
*'''[[Bezwada-Madras Railway]]''', 73 mile(440km) BG railway was built and operated by MR, constructed from 1893 and fully opened by 1899 linking [[Madras]] to [[Bezwada]] via [[Gudor]] and [[Nellore]]. The ‘Gudor -Nellore Section’ had first been constructed as a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line by the South Indian Railway(SIR) which had opened in 1888 and converted by the [[Madras Railway]] into BG in 1899 <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n90/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 82 (pdf 90) ]; Retrieved 16 Feb 2018</ref>.
==BG Railways worked by Madras Railway==
