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Full name: '''His Highness The Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway'''.
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|description=[[Wadi]] to [[Bezwada]]
[[Hyderabad]] to [[Manmad]]
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|date5=1950
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|company3details=Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railway (MG)
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|headquarters=[[Secunderabad]]
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|stations=[[Hyderabad]], [[Wadi]], [[Bezwada]], [[Manmad]]
|successor1=1951
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The full style was '''His Exalted Highness, The Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway''' and had its beginnings in a line built privately by the NIzam, to the dismay of the British authorities.
 
 
==== Reference list ====
 
*Stone, Edward Herbert, ''The Nizam’s State Railway. Illustrated by Photographs'' (London: 1876). [Copy held on open shelves, APAC Reading Room, British Library.]
 
==== Sources ====
 
*[http://irfca.org/faq/faq-hist.html "Chronological History of Railways in India"] (''The IRFCA Server'' : accessed 01 December 2008).
 
*[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Hyderabad,_India_(State) "Hyderabad, India (State)"]  (''LoveToKnow Classic Encyclopedia'' : accessed 01 December 2008).
 
*[http://irfca.org/docs/history/hyderabad.html "Hyderabad - Imperial Gazetteer of India"] References extracted from the Imperial Gazetteer (1909) by R Sivaramakrishnan, posted 18 August 2008 (''The IRFCA Server'' : accessed 01 December 2008).


[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Indian States Railways]]
[[Category:Indian States Railways]]

Revision as of 22:52, 1 December 2008

Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway
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Timeline
1870 Formation
1879 Becomes state railway
1950 Nationalisation
Constituent companies / lines
1874 Wadi-Secunderabad Railway (BG)
1889 Bezwada Extension Railway (BG)
1901 Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railway (MG)
Key locations
Headquarters Secunderabad
Workshops
Major Stations Hyderabad, Wadi, Bezwada, Manmad
Successor system / organisation
1951 Central Railway (IR)
Route mileage
Broad gauge 351 miles (1905)
Metre gauge 391 miles (1905)
Associated auxiliary force
How to use this infobox

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


Reference list

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

Sources