Amraoti State Railway
The Amraoti State Railway was a short Indian State broad gauge(BG) branch railway connecting Amraoti to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) mainline at Badnera [1].
The line with a length of 5½ miles(8.8km) opened in Feb 1871 and worked by Great Indian Peninsula Railway as the ‘GIPR Amraoti Branch’ [2].
The line was important to transport Amraoti cotton to Bombay via Baderna on the Nagpur branch of the GIPR [3].
The 1870-71 ‘Annual Report on Railways in India’ [4] gives the spelling as the “Oomrawuttee Railway” . This being the old spelling of Amraoti.
Further Information
See Great Indian Peninsula Railway
See also GIPR Lines absorbed into GPIR
References
- ↑ “Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 7”, p. 394 Retrieved 10 Apr 2018
- ↑ “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 65 (pdf73) ; Retrieved 10 Apr 2018
- ↑ “Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 6, 1908”; p. 178 Retrieved 10 Apr 2018
- ↑ ‘Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons Vol 19, 1872’ “Annual Report on Railways in India for 1871-72; The Oomrawutee and Khangaum Railways” Paras 89 and 91, page 38, pdf 598; Retrieved 9 Apr 2018
