Scindia-Neemuch Railway

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The Scindia-Neemuch Railway; the first section was opened c. 1874 as a metre gauge(MG) line from Neemuch (+Nimach+) to Indore.

+Note Neemuch is also named as Nimach.

The railway is named the Sindia-Neemuch State Railways in some early documents.

Early History

Surveys between Indore and Neemuch started long back in 1871-72 when the plan and estimates for the whole project was submitted to the Government of India in 1872-73. The Maharaja of Scindia agreed to grant a loan of Rs. 75 lakhs at 4 per cent per annum interest for the project and the railway was renamed the Scindia-Neemuch Railway. It also included a branch line to Ujjain from Indore. The Indore–Ujjain branch line was opened in August 1876 and the line was completed in 1879-80. [1] [2] [3]

From about 1874 the railway operated as the Holkar & Scindia-Neemuch Railway as a joint operation with the Holkar State Railway.

Amalgamation

In 1881-82, the Rajputana-Malwa State Railway (RMSR) was created joining under single management, existing State Railways:-

All these railways were worked by Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway(BB&CIR) State Railways.

In 1900 the RMSR was merged into the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway(BB&CIR), becoming the latter's Metre Gauge(MG) section; known as Ratlam Division of BB&CIR..

Records

An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [4] gives the following:-

  • V/24/3590; “India. Public Works Department: Railways” with Catalogue contents “Report on the progress and administration of the Holkar and Sindia-Neemuch State Railways, 1878/79”

Personnel

Further Information

See Rajputana-Malwa State Railway and Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway

References