Udaipur-Chitor Railway
Udaipur-Chitor Railway | ||
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Line of route | ||
Chitor to Udaipur | ||
Gauge / mileage | ||
Metre gauge | 67 miles (1905) 146 miles (1943) | |
Timeline | ||
1895 | First section opened to traffic | |
1899 | Line completed | |
c 1943 | Renamed Mewar State Railway | |
Key locations | ||
Presidency | Bengal | |
Stations | Chitor, Debari, Udaipur | |
System agency | ||
Own agency | ||
How to interpret this infobox |
Udaipur-Chitor Railway also known as Udaipur-Chitorgarh Railway and the Oodeypore-Chitor Railway
The railway was a Metre Gauge(MG) line, sponsored by the Princely Mewar State Durbar, to link Udaipur to Chitor and worked by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway(BB&CIR) up to 31 December 1897. With effect from 1st January 1908 the maintenance and working was taken over by the Mewar Durbar. [1]
Chitor was the connection to the Rajputana-Malwa Railway(RMR), which, in 1900, merged into the BB&CIR
During the Second World War, c.1943 the line became known as the Mewar State Railway.