Kathiawar State Railway

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Kathiawar State Railway

There are records that the give this as the title used from 1879-91 to describe the railway from Wadhwan on the south side of the Bhogawo River (facing Surendranager ) to the docks at Bhavnagar, this was a metre gauge(MG) line that opened in December 1880[1], also known as the Surendranagar-Bhavnagar Railway[2]

This became the start of the Bhavnagar State Railway [3]

Personnel

The Records show the following deployed to the 'Kathiawar State Railway'

  • Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne deployed from the Railway Branch of the Public Works Department, 1879-83, to the Kathiawar State Railway as Assistant Engineer, later promoted to Executive Engineer.
  • John Edwin Dallas, Assistant Engineer, also from the railway Branch was P.A. to the Engineer-in-Chief Kathiawar State Railway, from 1881.
  • Ernest Ifill Shadbolt, also from the railway Branch was Executive Engineer, Kathiawar State Railway, 1887-91.

Further Information

See Bhavnagar State Railway

and Kathiawar Peninsula Railway and Tramway Systems gives a map, timeline and relates this railway to others in the Kathiawar Peninsula.

References