Jodhpur State Railway

Jodhpur State Railway
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System timeline
1924	System formed
Constituent companies / lines
1924	Jodhpur section of Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway
1924	Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway
Key locations
Headquarters	Jodhpur
Workshops
Major Stations
Successor system / organisation
1947	Pakistan Railways (British section, Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway)
1952	Northern Railway (IR zone)
System mileage
Metre gauge	807 miles (1943)
Associated auxiliary force
n/a
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History

Originally named Jodhpur Railway. Walter Home was, in April 1882, deployed from the Public Works Department Railways Branch, appointed as Manager for the construction of the Jodhpur Railway and also in-charge of the Marwar State Public Works Department, . He built Jodhpur Railway from scratch over the ensuing 25 years.. 1889;

In July 1882 the Marwar-Pali section was opened to traffic; by March 1885 the railway to Jodhpur had been declared open.

In 1889, the Princely Jodpur State and Bikhaner State formed the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway (JBR) to promote railway development jointly within the Rajasthan Agency.

By 1906 the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway was having operations over 828 miles in the territories of Sind (under British control) and in territories of the States of Jodhpur and Bikaner. In October 1906 Walter Home resigned.

In 1924, the Jodhpur State Railway (JSR) was created and took over responsibility for working the Jodhpur section of the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway, including the British section of the Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway.

Writing critically in 1929 about third class travelling, Mahatma Ghandi condemned the latrines in JSR carriages as being "absolutely intolerable, insanitary and unfit for human use . . . The State railways should really be a model to the British system; whereas the actual state of things is the other way."

At Independence in 1947, the British section of the Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway became part of Pakistan Railways.