Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway
| Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Line of route | ||
| Jetalsar to Rajkot | ||
| Gauge / mileage | ||
| Metre gauge | 46 miles (1905) | |
| Timeline | ||
| 1898 | Opened to traffic | |
| Key locations | ||
| Presidency | Bombay | |
| Stations | Gondal, Jetalsar, Rajkot | |
| System agency | ||
| 1890 | Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway | |
| 1911 | Gondal-Porbandar Railway | |
| How to interpret this infobox | ||
The Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway was a short (but important in the context of the railways of the Kathiawar peninsula) metre gauge(MG) line. Jointly owned by the Princely Gondal State, the Junagadh State, the Rajkot State, and the Talukdar of Jetpur State. The line of 46 miles(72km) connected Jetalsar to Rajkot and opened in 1898. [1]
The line was worked by the Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway(BGJPR) until the breakup of that coalition in 1911; then by the administration of the Gondal-Porbandar Railway(GPSR )[1]
The India Office Records, see ‘Records’ below, indicate that there was an unsuccessful attempt for His Highness the Thakur Sahib of Gondal to purchase the Jetpur interest in the railway. The circumstances of this attempt have not been investigated.
Records
An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [2] gives the following:-
- L/PS/11/126; P 3748; 1917; “Kathiawar: Memorial from the Thakur Sahib of Gondal regarding his proposal to purchase the Jetpur interest in the Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway”; 13 Nov 1887-10 Dec 1923
- R/1/1/1565; File 124(2)-P(S); 1924; “Memorial from His Highness the Thakur Sahib of Gondal appealing against the refusal of the Government of India to appoint Courts of Arbitration for the disposal of the Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway and the Gir boundary cases”.