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Latest revision as of 08:59, 1 October 2017
Kathiawar State Railway
There are records that the give this as the title used from 1879-91 to describe the railway from Wadhwan on the south side of the Bhogawo River (facing Surendranager ) to the docks at Bhavnagar, this was a metre gauge(MG) line that opened in December 1880[1], also known as the Surendranagar-Bhavnagar Railway[2]
This became the start of the Bhavnagar State Railway [3]
Personnel
The Records show the following deployed to the 'Kathiawar State Railway'
- Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne deployed from the Railway Branch of the Public Works Department, 1879-83, to the Kathiawar State Railway as Assistant Engineer, later promoted to Executive Engineer.
- John Edwin Dallas, Assistant Engineer, also from the railway Branch was P.A. to the Engineer-in-Chief Kathiawar State Railway, from 1881.
- Ernest Ifill Shadbolt, also from the railway Branch was Executive Engineer, Kathiawar State Railway, 1887-91.
Further Information
and Kathiawar Peninsula Railway and Tramway Systems gives a map, timeline and relates this railway to others in the Kathiawar Peninsula.
References
- ↑ IRFCA "Chronology of railways in India, Part 2 (1870 - 1899)" 'Year 1880'; Retrieved 19 Jun 2017
- ↑ Wikipedia Surendranagar-Bhavnagar line"; Retrieved 19 Jun 2017
- ↑ Wikipedia "Bhavnagar State Railway"; Retrieved 19 Jun 2017
