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|timeline4date= 1907
|timeline4details= Merged with [[Madras Railway]] <br>to form [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]
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|headquarters= [[Dharwar]]
|workshop= [[Dharwar]]/[[Hubli]] <br>''See'' [[M&SMR Railway Workshops]]
|stations= [[Bangalore]], [[Bellary]], [[Gadag]], [[Guntakal]], [[Hotgi]], [[Kolhapur]], [[Marmagao]], [[Mysore]], [[Poona]]
|system1date= 1907
The '''Southern Mahratta Railway''' (SMR) was founded in 1882 to construct a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) railway between [[Hotgi]] and [[Gadag]] (opened to traffic in 1884), one of the "famine lines" set up with a guarantee. In the same year (1882), it was contracted by the Indian State of Mysore to work the several metre gauge lines that the Mysore State had built or was in the course of construction.
In 1888, a line was extended from [[Londa]] towards the Portuguese colony of [[Goa]] where it connected with the [[Marmagao]] line at [[Castle Rock]]. (From 1902 this line was leased as the [[West of India Portuguese Railway]].) By 1890, this line extended from Londa eastwards via [[Guntakal]] to [[Bezwada]], and northwards to [[Poona]], turning the SMR from an assortment of branches to a real railway network.
In 1908, the SMR , with a route mileage of 1687 miles(2715km), merged with sections of the ‘[[Madras South Indian Railway]](MR) ’ to form the '''[[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway# M&MSR Metre Gauge Division|'''Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway - M&MSR Metre Gauge Division''' - ''see separate page for details'']](M&SMR)
==Railways absorbed into/worked by SMR==
The following personnel , from the [[Public Works Department]], are recorded as being ‘on loan’ to the Southern Mahratta Railway Company:-
* Frederick Lewis Dibblee , Engineer-in-Chief, 1882 , on loan for a few months on start up of SMR <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180517204415/http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/genealogy/dibblee/employment.htm "Obituaries of Frederick Lewis Dibblee"]; Retrieved on 30 May 2016now archived.</ref>.
* Bernard William Cantopher, 1888-89, Executive Engineer <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA456 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 456 (pdf page 419)] Retrieved on 30 May 2016</ref>
*Theophilus Michell, 1888-89, Executive Engineer <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA566 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 566 (pdf page 529)] Retrieved on 30 May 2016</ref>.
