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The Villupuram-Nellore Railway is referred to in some documents but was a route and not an actual railway.
The route from Villupuram to Nellore was a metre gauge(MG) track of ........miles(133km). The route from Villupuram was via Katpadi, Pakala, Rirupati, Renigunta and Gudur and on to Nellor. The route was fully opened by 1893 and was worked by South Indian Railway(SIR) as a north-south route avoiding Madras.
The route comprised a number of sections:-
- The 'Villipuram-Katpadi Section' was part of the 'Villupuram-Guntakal State Railway'. This was a State Railway from Villupuram and opened in stages from Nov 1890, reaching Katpadi in Mar 1891 and worked under an agreement by the IRref name=Admin139>“Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 139 (pdf148); Retrieved 4 Feb 2018</ref>. The operation of this Section remained part of the SIR network after re-organisation on 1 Jan 1908 (see below).
- The 'Katpadi-Pakala' Section', a................. continued northward from Katpadi reaching Pakala in Mar 1891 Cite error: Invalid parameter in
<ref>tag. The operation of this Section was transferred from SIR to the newly formed 'Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway'(M&SMR) after 1 Jan 1908 (see below).
- The 'Pakala-Gudur' Section'. The line from Pakala to Tirupatar, a ........... opened in 1891 where it joined the Tirupatar - Renigunta- Gudur line that had been opened in 1887<ref name=Admin 86>
- The 'Gudur-Nelore' Section'
On 1 Jan 1908 the Government re-allocated a number of lines. The newly formed 'Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway'(M&SMR) was given the lines north of Katpadi which had previously been worked by the SIR.
As a consequence the ‘Villupuram-Guntakal State Railway’ ceased to exist and the line divided:-
- The section from Villupuram to Katpadi retained by SIR and became the ‘Villupuram-Katpadi Railway Section’ of the SIR metre gauge(MG) system.
- The section from Katpadi to Guntakal was transferred to M&SMR to become their ‘Kalpadi-Dharmavaram Branch’ and part of their ‘Guntakal-Mysore Frontier Branch’