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As a famine relief project, the Mysore Durbar opened the [[Mysore State Railway]](MSR) first This section from [[Mysore]] to Bangalore in 1881, '''[[Bangalore]]''' to Gubbi opened in 1884 and Gubbi to '''completed stages reaching [[Harihar]]''' in 1889 <ref name=Admin>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n100/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 92 (pdf100)]; Retrieved 11 Feb 2017</ref>, a distance of 210 miles via Tusar, [[Gubbi]], and Birur with a total of 33 stations <ref>British LibraryIOR/R/2/Box4/35 File 479B; 1888 “Mysore Govt. cede jurisdiction over the Bangalore - Hindupur & the Bangalore - Harihar railway lines. Question of jurisdiction over the Kolar Gold Fields Railway”; 1893-94</ref>. The railway headquarters was at [[Mysore]].
In 1907On 1 July 1893 two sections of the MSR, the SMR merged with 'Bangalore Harihar' and [[Madras Bangalore Hindupur Railway|'Bangalore Hidupur']](MR) Railways were transferred by the State of Mysore to become the [[Madras Government of India, giving full jurisdiction and Southern Mahratta operation <ref>British Library ‘India Office Records’ IOR/R/2/Box 4/35 “Mysore Govt. cede jurisdiction over the Bangalore - Hindupur & the Bangalore - Harihar railway lines. Question of jurisdiction over the Kolar Gold Fields Railway”; 1893-94</ref>. The Railway]] (M&continued to be operated by the SMR)
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The '''Bangalore Harihar Railway'''was a section of the [[Mysore State Railway]](MSR), a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) railway constructed originally as a famine relief project.
In 1887, in order to eradicate its "famine debt", the State of Mysore leased the MSR to the [[Southern Mahratta Railway]] (SMR) for a period of 45 years.
In 1907, the SMR merged with [[Madras Railway]](MR) to become the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]](M&SMR) and they continued to work and manage the railway which later became the M&SMR ‘Mysore Section’ <ref name=Admin/>
From 1 Jan 1938, the lines leased to M&SMR, which included the ‘Bangalore Harihar Section’ reverted to the control of the State of Mysore, creating a homogenous railway of just under 740 miles. In 1950, MSR was nationalised and in 1951 became part of Southern Railway, one of the then newly formed zones of Indian Railways.
==Personnel==
*[[Augustus Le Messurier]] Col. R.E. from the [[Public Works Department]] was the Engineer-in-Chief from 1882 <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA546 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 546 (pdf page 509] Retrieved on 21 May 2016</ref>.
==Further Information==
See '''[[Mysore State Railway]]''' and '''[[ Southern Mahratta Railway]]''' up to 1907
<br>See '''[[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]''' from 1907
== References ==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Indian States Railways]]
