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''No other information has been found concerning this tramway.''
''No other information has been found concerning this tramway.''
==Records==
An on-line search of the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) records held at the [[British Library]] relating to this tramway <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2  “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue”  - Search];  Retrieved  12 Apr 2016</ref>
gives the following:- 
*R/2/Box18/107; “File 432 1905 Proposed construction of a tramway from the Shimoga Railway Station to the Manganese mines at Kumsi. History of the above mines. Information required by the Portuguese General Consul at Bombay as to the Manganese mines in Mysore”; 1905-1923
''This record has not been examined and may provide additional information.''


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 15:18, 12 April 2016

The Shimoga Tramway was opened in 1907 to convey manganese ore from the Mysore Manganese Company’s mines at Kumsi. The tramway was 18 miles in length and was constructed by the Company as none of the Mysore rivers were navigable . The narrow gauge(NG) tramway operated to the Shimoga railway station where there was a connection to the metre gauge(MG) Birur-Shimoga Railway. [1] [2]

No other information has been found concerning this tramway.

Records

An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this tramway [3] gives the following:-

  • R/2/Box18/107; “File 432 1905 Proposed construction of a tramway from the Shimoga Railway Station to the Manganese mines at Kumsi. History of the above mines. Information required by the Portuguese General Consul at Bombay as to the Manganese mines in Mysore”; 1905-1923

This record has not been examined and may provide additional information.

References