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<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA546&lpg=PA546&dq=Bangalore+Harihar+Railway&source=bl&ots=eoKE12owR5&sig=MbPq4iwigkvPzjvei8V9yFNdhRw&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBTgoahUKEwigyYWWz_nIAhXKPRQKHSkaDyY#v=onepage&q=Bangalore%20Harihar%20Railway&f=false Google Books - "India and Indian Office List, 1905 - Record of Services" page 546];Retrieved 16 Apr 2016</ref>
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The railway was opened in 1899 as part of the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]](M&SMR)
The 273 mile(440km)  broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) railway was built and operated by
the [[Madras Railway|Madras Railway Company]]. The ‘Madras-Bezwada Railway Section’  was constructed from 1893 and fully opened by 1899 linking [[Madras]] to [[Bezwada]] via [[Gudur]] and [[Nellore]]. The ‘Gudur - Nellore Section’ had first been constructed as a  metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line by the South Indian Railway(SIR) which had opened in 1888 and converted by the [[Madras Railway]] into BG line in 1899.
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n90/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 82 (pdf 90) ]; Retrieved  24 Dec 2017</ref>.
 


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
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== References ==
== References ==
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==Further Information==
==Further Information==
See '''[[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]'''
See '''[[Madras Railway]] up to 1907 and then  '''[[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]'''  


[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]]

Latest revision as of 14:50, 24 December 2017

Bezwada-Madras Railway

The Bezwada-Madras Railway was surveyed in November 1893 by Consulting Engineer Francis Joseph Edward Spring. The 1898 detailed scale drawings of bridges, stations, offices, railway station machinery, temporary buildings, road crossings designs of were made by E J Moore Engineer-in-Chief of the Bezwada-Madras Railway and J C Lyle being his Assistant. [1]

The 273 mile(440km) broad gauge(BG) railway was built and operated by the Madras Railway Company. The ‘Madras-Bezwada Railway Section’ was constructed from 1893 and fully opened by 1899 linking Madras to Bezwada via Gudur and Nellore. The ‘Gudur - Nellore Section’ had first been constructed as a metre gauge(MG) line by the South Indian Railway(SIR) which had opened in 1888 and converted by the Madras Railway into BG line in 1899. [2].


Personnel

No Staff Lists have been found.

The “Indian Biographical Dictionary” gives Ernest Ifill Shadbolt, Public Works Department, Executive Engineer from 1888 to 1893 as 'Engineer-in-Chief of the Bezwada-Madras Railway Survey and Madura-Pamban, Tinnevelly-Quilon Railway Surveys ' [3]

References

Further Information

See Madras Railway up to 1907 and then Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway