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The former [[Madras Railway - Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Workshops|MR Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Workshops]] at [[Perambur]] became the M&SMR main workshops. In Madras there was a separate repair-shop for the locomotives and another for maintaining the carriages and wagons.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131114020145/http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/grandpas-story-part-v/ "Grandpa’s Story – Part V"]. The story (in 15 Parts) of Percy Morris who worked on the MSM 1925-1955</ref>
The last Europeans were recruited in 1926.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131114020233/http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/grandpas-story-part-iv/ "Grandpa’s Story – Part IV"]. The story of Percy Morris.</ref>
==Also see==
*[[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles]]
1937 Map added, Workshops link add and M&SMR Rifles made bold, Personnel Heading created
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[[File:M&SM Railway System 1937 Map.png|thumb|M&SMR Railway System 1937 Map]] The '''Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway'''(M&SMR) was formed in 1908 from the merger of the [[Madras Railway]](MR) and the [[Southern Mahratta Railway]](SMR).
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n89/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; pages 81 - 97]; Retrieved 26 Jan 2016</ref>
== History ==
Having taken the MR into state ownership and created the new system, the Government of India ([[Government of India |GoI]]) immediately passed the working of the M&SMR to a private company of the same name.
On 14 April 1951, the M&SMR, the [[South Indian Railway]](SIR) and the [[Mysore State Railway]](MSR) merged together to become '''Southern Railway''', a zone of Indian Railways.
==Railway Workshops==
The former [[Madras Railway - Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Workshops|MR Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Workshops]] at [[Perambur]] became the M&SMR main workshops. In Madras there was a separate repair-shop for the locomotives and another for maintaining the carriages and wagons.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131114020145/http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/grandpas-story-part-v/ "Grandpa’s Story – Part V"]. The story (in 15 Parts) of Percy Morris who worked on the M&SMR 1925-1955</ref>
For further information [[M&SMR Railway Workshops|'''M&SMR Railway Workshops''' ''see seperate page'']]
==M&SMR Riles Regiment==
See seperate page '''[[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles]]'''
==Railways absorbed into M&SMR==
*'''L/F/7/1513-1526''' “Collection 266: Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway; date unspecified"
==Personnel Records==
Unfortunately there are no Staff agreements held at the [[British Library]] in the [[India Office Records]].
The last Europeans were recruited in 1926. Percy Morris who worked on the M&SMR 1925-1955<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131114020233/http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/grandpas-story-part-iv/ "Grandpa’s Story – Part IV"]. The story of Percy Morris.</ref>
== References ==
