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The '''Trichinopoly-Pudukkottai Railway''' was a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line first proposed by Pudukkottai Durbar in 1906 to connect [[Trichinopoly]] with [[Pudukkottai]] and [[Tondi]] on the east coast some 83 miles(133km) away.
<ref>[http://www.irfca.org/docs/history/sir-trichinopoly.html IRFCA "Trichinopoly", author F. R. Hemingway; published under the District Gazetteers series by the Government Press, Madras, 1907.]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref>
<ref>[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10973/18185/GIPE-015962.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y "Railways in India – GOI Administritive Report 1916-17"]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref>.
A railway linking [[Trichinopoly]] and [[Karaikkudi]] in Madura district and passing through [[Pudukkottai]] was completed in March 1926 as part of the [[South Indian Railway]](SIR) network .
<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudukkottai_state Wikipedia "Pudukkottai State"]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref>
The [[Trichinopoly]] to [[Pudukkottai]], a length of 32 miles(51km) had been sanctioned for construction by the SIR in August 1916
<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 152]; Retrieved 21 Dec 2015</ref>
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