Jodhpur State Railway
| Jodhpur State Railway | ||
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| System timeline | ||
| 1924 | System formed | |
| Constituent companies / lines | ||
| 1924 | Jodhpur section of Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway | |
| 1924 | Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway | |
| Key locations | ||
| Headquarters | Jodhpur | |
| Workshops | ||
| Major Stations | ||
| Successor system / organisation | ||
| 1947 | Pakistan Railways (British section, Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway) | |
| 1952 | Northern Railway (IR zone) | |
| System mileage | ||
| Metre gauge | 807 miles (1943) | |
| Associated auxiliary force | ||
| n/a | ||
| How to interpret this infobox | ||
History
Originally named Jodhpur Railway. In July 1882 the Marwar-Pali section was opened to traffic; by March 1885 the railway to Jodhpur had been declared open.
In 1889, the Princely Jodpur State and Bikhaner State formed the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway (JBR) to promote railway development jointly within the Rajasthan Agency.
In 1924, the Jodhpur State Railway (JSR) was created and took over responsibility for working the Jodhpur section of the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway, including the British section of the Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway.
Writing critically in 1929 about third class travelling, Mahatma Ghandi condemned the latrines in JSR carriages as being "absolutely intolerable, insanitary and unfit for human use . . . The State railways should really be a model to the British system; whereas the actual state of things is the other way." [1]
At Independence in 1947, the British section of the Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway became part of Pakistan Railways.
References
- ↑ Mahatma Ghandi, "Third-Class Travelling, Letters of Mahatma Ghandi, Vol 45, 14 Feb 1929 page 41; Retrieved 14 Jan 2016