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*Mss Eur F222/19; “Miscellaneous material on the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, Hyderabad”; 1921-1927  
*Mss Eur F222/19; “Miscellaneous material on the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, Hyderabad”; 1921-1927  
*L/F/7/2193; “Collection 370/37: Railways: Miscellaneous: Nizam's Guaranteed State RailwayCompany. Purchase by the Government of the Nizam of Hyderabad”; 1929-1930
*L/F/7/2193; “Collection 370/37: Railways: Miscellaneous: Nizam's Guaranteed State RailwayCompany. Purchase by the Government of the Nizam of Hyderabad”; 1929-1930
==Personnel==
Staff lists for Nizam's Guaranteed Railway have not been found.
There is one record in the 1905 Civil List for [[George Pringle Rose]], Executive Engineer from the [[Public Works Department]] - [[:Category:State Railways|State Railways]], 'lent to Nizam's government, April 1895 and to Nizam's State Railway Company, July 1807 to Oct 1900 <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA604 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 604 (pdf page 567)] Retrieved on 27 May 2016</ref>.


== Reference list ==
== Reference list ==

Revision as of 08:59, 27 May 2016

Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway
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Line of route
Wadi to Bezwada
Hyderabad to Manmad
Gauge / mileage
Broad gauge 330 miles (1905)
Timeline
1870 Private railway worked by company
1879 (Indian) state railway worked by company
1930 (Indian) state railway worked by (Indian) state
Key locations
Presidency Madras
Stations Bezwada, Manmad, Warangal
System agency
Worked by
Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway
How to interpret this infobox
Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway
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System timeline
1883 Management company formed to work system
1930 Working taken on by state
Constituent companies / lines
1874 Wadi-Secunderbad Railway BG
1889 Bezwada Extension Railway BG
1900 Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railway MG
Key locations
Headquarters Secunderabad
Workshops
Major Stations Aurangabad, Chanda, Hyderabad, Medak, Nander, Nizamabad, Parbhani, Secunderabad, Wadi
Successor system / organisation
1950 Nationalisation
1951 Central Railway (IR)
System mileage
Broad Gauge(BG) 351 miles (1905)
688 miles (1943)
Metre Gauge(MG) 391 miles (1905)
672 miles (1943)
Associated auxiliary force
n/a
How to interpret this infobox

The full style of the system was His Exalted Highness, The Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway (NGSR) which had its beginnings in a line built privately by the NIzam, to the dismay of the British authorities.

History

The earliest sections, operating as Nizam's Railway, were commenced during the 1870s, variously financed, constructed and operated.

Up to end of 1878 the line was worked by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway(GIPR) Company with its own rolling stock. From January 1879 to 31st December 1884 it was worked by the State Railway agency and from January 1885 by NGSR [1]

In 1883, a management company, Nizam's Guaranteed Railway, was formed to gradually take over these lines, under the provision of a guarantee from the Government of HEH the Nizam of the Princely Hyderabad State.

The State of Hyderabad assumed operational control of the system in 1930, renaming the railway Nizam's State Railway.

In 1950, the NGSR was nationalised and in 1951 became part of Central Railway, a zone of Indian Railways.

Nizam’s Railway Lines (up to 1883)

Nizam’s Guaranteed Railway Lines (1883-1930)

Nizam’s State Lines (after 1930)

Records

An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [2] gives several entries, the most relevant as follows: -

  • L/F/5/128; “Nizam's Guaranteed Railway Co” with Contents “Copies of agreements with the Secretary of State, Company Memoranda and Articles of Association, and share prospectuses”; 1897-1919
  • Mss Eur F222/19; “Miscellaneous material on the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, Hyderabad”; 1921-1927
  • L/F/7/2193; “Collection 370/37: Railways: Miscellaneous: Nizam's Guaranteed State RailwayCompany. Purchase by the Government of the Nizam of Hyderabad”; 1929-1930

Personnel

Staff lists for Nizam's Guaranteed Railway have not been found.

There is one record in the 1905 Civil List for George Pringle Rose, Executive Engineer from the Public Works Department - State Railways, 'lent to Nizam's government, April 1895 and to Nizam's State Railway Company, July 1807 to Oct 1900 [3].

Reference list

  • Stone, Edward Herbert, The Nizam’s State Railway. Illustrated by Photographs (London: 1876). [Copy held on open shelves, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library.]

Sources

References