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 |
In 1924, the Jodhpur State Railway (JSR) 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 wasy." (1)
At Independence in 1947, the British section of the Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway became part of Pakistan Railways.
Notes
1. Mahatma Ghandi, "Third-Class Travelling," Letters of Mahatma Ghandi, 45:39