Guzerat Railway Company

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Guzerat Railway Company
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System timeline
1911 System formed
Constituent companies / lines
1911 Champaner-Shivrajpur- Pani Light Railway
1913 Godhra-Lunavada Railway
1913 Nadiad-Kapadvanj Railway
1917 Shivrajpur Light Railway
Key locations
Headquarters
Workshops Halol Gohdra Nadiad
Major Stations
Successor system / organisation
1911 Self administration
1922 Managememt taken over by Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway
System mileage
2ft 6in Narrow gauge
Associated auxiliary force
How to interpret this infobox

The Guzerat Railways Company Limited was formed in 1911 owned and managed a group of four 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) railway lines - [1]

The management of these lines was taken over by Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway(BB&CIR) in 1922

Records

Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the Fibis shop. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the India Office Records (IOR) held at the British Library

An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway [2] gives 4 references. The most important being:-

  • L /F/8/20/1764 “Guzerat Railways Company Limited, Indenture supplemental to those dated 30th April 1914 and 6th December 1917; 1929.”
  • L/F/8/17/1361 “Nadiad-Kapadvanj and Godhralunavada Railways, Agreement and indenture; 1914. (Note Catalogue typo error Godhra-Lunavada is correct)
  • L/F/8/19/1433 “Guzerat Railways Company Limited, Contract in connection with acquisition and extension of the Shivrajpur Light Railway; 1917”

Further Information

See Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway from 1922

References