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This metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line owned by the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Mysore State]] and was a portion of the [[Guntakal]] to [[Bangalore]] connection.
This metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line owned by the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Mysore State]] and was a portion of the [[Guntakal]] to [[Bangalore]] connection.
<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government  Printing,  Calcutta; page 90]; Retrieved 18 Dec 2015</ref>
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n98/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government  Printing,  Calcutta; page 90]; Retrieved 4 Feb 2016</ref>


Also included the '''Yesvantpur-Dodballepur Railway''' section  
Also included the '''Yesvantpur-Dodballepur Railway''' section  

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Hindupur-Yesvantpur Railway
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Line of route
Hindupur to Bangalore
Gauge / mileage
Metre gauge 51 miles (1905)
Timeline
1893 Opened to traffic
Key locations
Presidency Madras
Stations Hindupur, Yesvantpur
System agency
1893 Worked by Southern Mahratta Railway
1907 Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway
How to interpret this infobox

Hindupur-Yesvantpur Railway

Also known as the Hindupur (Yesvantpur-Mysore Frontier) Railway and the Yesvantpur-Mysore Frontier Railway

This metre gauge(MG) line owned by the Princely Mysore State and was a portion of the Guntakal to Bangalore connection. [1]

Also included the Yesvantpur-Dodballepur Railway section

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/8/20/1733 “Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company Limited, Indenture supplemental to that dated 2nd December 1899 for working and maintenance of theYesvantpur-Hindupur Railway Government of H.H. the Maharajah of Mysore; 1925”

References