Jamnagar State Railway
Jamnagar State Railway
The Navanagar State Railway from Navanager to Rajkot opened in 1897. The line was a metre gauge(MG) line with a length of 54 miles (87km) and owned by the Princely Navanager State.
This line was originally called the Jamnagar State Railway after the district around Navanager and connected to the Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway at Rajkot. [1]
The line was worked as part of the Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway(BGJPR) system until 1911. Later, when the line was extended westwards to Dwarka and Port Okha on the Gulf of Cutch, the system was renamed the Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway(J&DR). [2] [3]
The BGJPR administrative coalition was dissolved in 1911 with the constituents going their independent ways. The Jamnager Railway worked its own railway from Rajkot to Jamnager with the Junagadh State Railway taking over the working of its system from Jetslar to Veravel including its branches.
References
- ↑ " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 184; Retrieved 18 Dec 2015
- ↑ Google Books "Indian States: A Biographical, Historical, and Administrative Survey" by Somerset Playne,R. V. Solomon,J. W. Bond,Arnold Wright; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015
- ↑ "A monograph on Indian railway rates" by S.C.Ghose 1918. Published by Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta, 1918; Retrieved 14 Jan 2016