Carwar and Hooblee Railway Survey
Carwar and Hooblee Railway Survey
The 1872 ‘Annual Report on Railways in India’ [1] lists the ‘Carwar and Hooblee Railway’ as a railway “being constructed by the Government without the intervention of companies”:-
“Carwar and Hooblee Railway, length 144 miles(230km) to Gudduck. Repeated surveys have been made of this line, and the difficulties, while still serious, are less than they were first expected to be, but the question of its construction is still under consideration. The railway reaches the top of the Ghats, at a level of 2,200 feet (670mtr) above the sea by works extending over 24 miles(38km) ... with a continuous incline, 4 miles(6.4km) in length, of 1 in 40 ...”
Fibis Comment
The route of this line has not been positively identified but must have been from the coastal port of Carwar (later known as Karwar) eastward over the Western Ghats to Hooblee(later known as Hubli). Gudduck has not been identified.
The repeated surveys mention in the text would have included the Karwar-Dharwar Light Railway Proposal 1858 and the Beitkal Harbour to Hyderabad Railway Proposal 1858.
In the event none of these proposals were adopted.