Sind Light Railway Co Ltd
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The Sind Light Railway was a privately owned railway opened in 1909 linking Mirpurkhas to Jhudo.
The Sind Light Railway Company Ltd was founded in Bombay in 1908 by a Bombay businessman Sir Montague de Pomeroy Webb. <ref>[1] The History of British India: A Chronology by John F. Riddick - 2006 page 324<ref>
Mirpurkhas became a railway junction in the early 20th century. Until 1909 there was only a metre gauge(MG) line running through the district, from Hyderabad to Marwar Junction. In 1909, the Sind Light Railway Co Ltd opened a line from Mirpurkhas to Jhudo. <ref>[2] Thar and Parkar District<ref>
