Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway

Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway
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System timeline
1880	System formed
1911	System dissolved
Constituent companies / lines
1880	Bhavnagar State Railway
1881	Gondal Railway
1888	Junagadh State Railway
	Porbandar State Railway
1898	Dhrangadra Railway
1890	Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway
1897	Jamnagar Railway
Key locations
Headquarters	Bhavnagar
Workshops
Major Stations	Bhavnagar, Dhola, Jetalsar, Porbandar, Rajkot, Veraval, Wadhwan
Successor system / organisation
1911	Bhavnagar State Railways Gondal Railways Junagadh State Railways Porbandar State Railway
System mileage
Metre gauge	485 miles (1905)
Associated auxiliary force
n/a
How to interpret this infobox

The Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway (BGJPR) was a system comprising several short Metre Gauge(MG) lines on the Kathiawar peninsula (in western Gujarat). Owned by the four Indian States that gave the system its name. This administrative coalition was dissolved in 1911 with the constituents going their independent ways.

These railways were to come together again, with others (eg the Morvi Railway), in 1948 to form the Saurashtra Railway.

Lines worked by BGJPR at some time

• Jamnager Railway, opened 1897. Worked as part of the BGJPR system until 1911; then renamed Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway
• Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway, opened 1890. Jointly owned by Gondal, Junagadh and Rajkot States, worked by BGJPR, 1890; then Bhavnagar State Railway, 1911
• Rajkot-Jamnager Railway, opened 1897. Worked as part of BGJPR

External links

• Western Railway (India) Wikipedia.
• Indian States: A Biographical, Historical, and Administrative Survey by Somerset Playne,R. V. Solomon,J. W. Bond,Arnold Wright
• A monograph on Indian railway rates by S.C.Ghose 1918