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|route= [[Hotgi]] to [[Guntakal]]<br>[[Guntakal]] to [[Bezwada]]<br>[[Gadag]] to [[Poona]]<br>[[Bellary]] to [[Rayadrug]] (branch)
|gauge1= Metre gauge
|gauge1details= 1042 miles (1905)
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|timeline1date= 1884|timeline1details=First sections opened to traffic
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|presidency=[[Madras]], [[Bombay]]
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|system1date=1882|system1details= Worked by [[Southern Mahratta Railway]]|system2date=1907|system2details= [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]
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|timeline2date= 1882|timeline2details=Contracted to work [[Mysore State Railway]]
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|company1=1882
|company1details= [[Southern Mahratta Railway]]
|company2=1899
|company2details= [[Birur-Shimoga Railway]]
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|company6details= [[Kolhapur State Railway]]
|company7=1891
|company7details= [[Mysore-Nanjangud Railway]]
|company8=1882
|company8details= [[Mysore State Railway]]
|company9=1902
|company9details= [[West of India Portuguese Railway]]
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|system1date=1907|system1details= [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]
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|gauge1= Metre gauge|gauge1details= 1687 miles (1905)
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|auxillary forces=[[Southern Mahratta Railway Rifle Corps]]
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== History ==
The SMR was founded in 1882 as to construct a metre gauge railway between [[Hotgi]] and [[Gadag]](opened to traffic in 1884), one of the "famine lines" set up with a guarantee. In 1883the 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 to from [[Londa]] towards the Portuguese colony of [[Goa]] where it connected with the [[Marmagao]] line. (From 1903 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 merged with the [[Madras Railway]] to form the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]].
