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Route miles clarified with km conversions
[[File:Vijapur-Kalol-Kadi Railway and and Bechraji Extension.png|thumb| Vijapur-Kalol-Kadi Railway and Bechraji Extension]]
The '''Vijapur-Kalol-Kadi Railway''' was a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line completed in 1903 with a an opening length of 41 miles(65km). The line was owned by the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Baroda State]] and worked by [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) <ref name=Admin>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n40/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” Page 32 (pdf 40) ]; Retrieved 7 Nov 2016</ref> <ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/text.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V08_337.gif "Imperial Gazetteer of India", v. 8, p. 331.]; Retrieved 7 Nov 2016</ref>
The MG line of 41 miles(65km) from [[Vijapur]] to [[Kolol]], opened 1902 and reached [[Kadi ]] in 1903. A 5 mile(8km) extension opened in 1912 from [[Kadi]] to Bhoyani Road <ref name=Admin/>.
A further 21 miles extension mile(34km) ‘Bechraji Extension Railway’ from Bhoyani Road to [[Bechraji]] was sanctioned in 1916 <ref>“Railways in India – GOI Administrative Report 1916-17 / Native States Lines” page 17</ref> <ref name=Admin/> and completed at sometime before 1921 to complete the connection to the metre gauge [[Gaekwar's Mehsana Railway]]’(GMR) at [[Bechraji]].
This gave a total route mileage of 67 miles(108km) In 1921 the working of this line, together with the GMR, passed from the BB&CIR to the [[Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway]](GBSR)
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