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| The '''Coorg Forest Railway Survey''' was authorised in 1920 as a reconnaissance project being carried out by Major E P Anderson R.E. , an Engineer from State Railways <ref name=pioneer>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=3h5DAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA13-PA45&lpg=RA13-PA45&dq=Bombay-Sind+Connection+Railway&source=bl&ots=mqWvKuOygi&sig=1nLDrzfXI4eT4SvrvSWSDg2bUPg&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDl_bVqPjNAhXEnRoKHVWQBXIQ6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=Bombay-Sind%20Connection%20Railway&f=false "Pioneer Mail and Indian Weekly News", Volume 47, 8 October 1920, page 45]; Retrieved 18 Jul 2016</ref>.
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| The proposal was for a line from Laldevanhalli]] to Sidapur, with a branch from Hebbalenhole to Nagerhole, a total distance of about 50 miles <ref name=pioneer/> .
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| [[Coorg]] is a district in Karnataka, later became known as Kodagu, meaning ‘dense forest on a steep hill’ and is a densly forested hill station at the southern end of the Western Ghats in Karnataka <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodagu_district Wikipedia " Kodagu District"]; Retrieved 18 Jul 2016</ref>. | |
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| The project was not taken up and no railway was constructed in this environmentally rich forested area.
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