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The origins of the '''Shivrajpur Light Railway''' have not been traced.
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The '''Shivrajpur Light Railway'''  
  
The '''Shivrajpur Light Railway''' was brought by the [[Guzerat Railway Company]] in 1917 and joined to the [[Champaner-Shivrajpur- Pani Light Railway]] to form a group of four lines.
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The 1916 report <ref> [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10973/18185/GIPE-015962.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y  “Railways in India – GOI Administritive Report 1916-17” page 13] Retrieved on  27 Jan 2016</ref> states :- ‘The Shivrapur-Pani extension was opened for traffic on the 15th November 1916, was constructed to afford railway communication to the Manganese Mines at Pani and open out a tract of inaccessible country in the Barya and Chota Udaipur States... the construction work has been carried out by the Guzerat Railway Company who will also undertake its working’
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The '''Shivrajpur Light Railway''' was in 1917 purchased by the [[Guzerat Railway Company]] <ref name=name/>  and created the [[Champaner-Shivrajpur- Pani Light Railway]] to form a group of four lines operated by the '''[[Guzerat Railway Company]]''' .
  
 
The management of the Guzerat Railway Company lines was taken over by [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) in 1922
 
The management of the Guzerat Railway Company lines was taken over by [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) in 1922
  
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==Records==
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Refer to FIBIS Fact File  #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” -  available from the [http://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0004-research-sources-for-indian-railways-1845-1947/ Fibis shop]. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]]
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An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway <ref name=name>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2  “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue”  - Search];  Retrieved  Jan 2016</ref>
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*'''L/F/8/19/1433 '''  “Guzerat Railways Company Limited, Contract in connection with acquisition and extension of the Shivrajpur Light Railway; 1917”
  
==External Links==
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== References ==
*[http://www.irfca.org/articles/isrs/isrs082004-steam-history.html IRFCA Steam History – Gujarat Lines]
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*[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10973/18185/GIPE-015962.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y  Railways in India – GOI Administritive Report 1916-17] 
 
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=riBJH0J1FR0C&pg=PA506&lpg=PA506&dq=Shivrajpur+Railway&source=bl&ots=8nsPcEwCDm&sig=bNxIF4XI8TqkHw8EIeZV84BXWgc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iLg7VdibK6f17AbQloH4DA&ved=0CFEQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=Shivrajpur%20Railway&f=false Indian States: A Biographical, Historical, and Administrative Survey by Somerset Playne, R. V. Solomon, J. W. Bond, Arnold Wright 1922]
 
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/c3e43689-2c77-498a-9749-f997e520068c Guzerat Railways Company Limited, Contract in connection with acquisition and extension of the Shivrajpur Light Railway Secretary of State. 6 Dec 1917.IOR/L/F/8/19/1433]
 
  
 
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Revision as of 11:36, 27 January 2016

The Shivrajpur Light Railway

The 1916 report [1] states :- ‘The Shivrapur-Pani extension was opened for traffic on the 15th November 1916, was constructed to afford railway communication to the Manganese Mines at Pani and open out a tract of inaccessible country in the Barya and Chota Udaipur States... the construction work has been carried out by the Guzerat Railway Company who will also undertake its working’

The Shivrajpur Light Railway was in 1917 purchased by the Guzerat Railway Company [2] and created the Champaner-Shivrajpur- Pani Light Railway to form a group of four lines operated by the Guzerat Railway Company .

The management of the Guzerat Railway Company lines was taken over by Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway(BB&CIR) in 1922

Records

Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the Fibis shop. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the India Office Records (IOR) held at the British Library

An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway [2] gives the following: -

  • L/F/8/19/1433 “Guzerat Railways Company Limited, Contract in connection with acquisition and extension of the Shivrajpur Light Railway; 1917”

References