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'''Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway
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==History==
The line from [[Jetalsar]] to [[Rajkot]] was proposed by the Government in 1891. The Gondal State had spent most of its reserves on the [[Porbandar State Railway]] which reached the port of [[Porbandar]] in 1890. Various meetings were called by the Political Agent and an agreement was reached in 1891. Junagadh State had already started the line as far as [[Navagad]]. Under the agreement when the line was continued to Gondal it would be handed over at cost to Gondal. The financing states agreed to have the [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway]](BGJPR) as the operating company. The capital was split between Gondal and Junagadh with 3/8 each and Rajkot and a reluctant Jetalsar 1/8 each. Raising a total of Rs1,600,000. The line opened in 1893 <ref> ???</ref>.


The operation of the line ran smoothly until the dissolution of the BGJPR. The agreement stated that the Railway Board would decide who the operator of the Railway would be. They granted this to Gondal in 1911 <ref> British Library ‘India Office Records’  L/PS/11/126; P 3748: ‘Memorial from the Thakur Sahib of Gondal regarding his proposal to purchase the Jetpur interest in the Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway’</ref>.
With the inclusions of the Kathiawar Ports into the [[Kathiawar_Peninsula_Railway_and_Tramway_Systems#Customs_Union_of_British_India|'Customs Union of British India' ''– see separate page'']] <ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15023 “Kathiawar Economics” by A. B. Trivedi  Bombay 1943 Page 202]; Retrieved 24 Sept 2017</ref> at about the same time, a growth of lines connecting the various ports started. The ‘Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway’  was an important link for north-south traffic and the Railway Board specified the proportion of traffic to and from the various State Ports. <ref name=IOR> British Library ‘India Office Records’  R/1/1/14784(1) “Proposed takeover of the management of the Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway by the Junagadh State Railway from Gondal Railway” Gondal’s reply P1, 1935</ref>.
Seeing a threat to its income Bhavnagar approached Jetalsar in 1910 about buying its share in the ‘Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway’  this started a bidding war with both Junagadh and Gondal claiming that Jetalsar had sold its share to them. The relationship between Gondal and Junagadh deteriorated with complaints from Junagadh to the Railway Board of mismanagement, which were dismissed by the Railway Board on investigation. As the two States fought for control. Gondal made a number of pleas to obtain Jetalsar’s share with no success as the Bombay, Indian and British Governments tried to maintain a status quo. 
During this period a price war broke out and this also lead to a disagreement with Porbandar and the separation of the Gondal-Porbandar Railway in 1916. <ref>British Library ‘India Office Records’  L/PS/11/126; P 3748: ‘Memorial from the Thakur Sahib of Gondal regarding his proposal to purchase the Jetpur interest in the Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway’</ref>.
The relationship between Gondal and Junagadh deteriorated with complaints from Junagadh to the [[Railway Board]] of mismanagement, which were dismissed by the Railway Board on investigation. As the two States fought for control. Gondal made a number of pleas to obtain Jetalsar’s share with no success as the Bombay, Indian and British Governments tried to maintain a status quo. In the end all such proposals were turned down by the [[Railway Board]]<ref name=IOR/>.
== References ==
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