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The railway opened originally as a famine relief project. The This section from [[Princely states|Princely Bangalore]]opened in 1884 and completed stages reaching [[Mysore StateHarihar]] Durbar opened the in 1889 <ref name=Admin>[[Mysore State Railway]]https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n100/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 92 (MSRpdf100) first from [[Mysore]] to [[Bangalore]] in 1881; Retrieved 11 Feb 2017</ref>, a distance of 210 miles via Tusar, and extended to [[Gubbi]] in 1884 , and reaching [[Birur with a total of 33 stations <ref>British LibraryIOR/R/2/Box4/35 File 479B; 1888 “Mysore Govt. cede jurisdiction over the Bangalore - Hindupur & the Bangalore - Harihar]] in 1889railway lines. Question of jurisdiction over the Kolar Gold Fields Railway”; 1893-94</ref>. The railway headquarters was at [[Mysore]].
==Further Information==
See '''[[Madras Railway]] and [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]'''
Information clarified and revised following BL Research by Steve Moore
The '''Bangalore Harihar Railway''' was a section of the [[Mysore State Railway]](MSR), a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) railway constructed originally as a famine relief project.
In 1887, in order to eradicate its "famine debt", the State of Mysore leased the MSR to the [[Southern Mahratta Railway]] (SMR) for a period of 45 years.
In 1907, the SMR merged with [[Madras Railway]](MR) to become the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]](M&SMR) and they continued to work and manage the railway. ==Records==An on-line search of which later became the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) records held at the [[British Library]] relating to this railway M&SMR ‘Mysore Section’ <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vidname=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 1 Apr 2016<Admin/ref>gives the following: -*R/2/Box4/35 File 479B 1888 Mysore Govt. cede jurisdiction over the Bangalore - Hindupur & the Bangalore - Harihar railway lines. Question of jurisdiction over the Kolar Gold Fields Railway”; 1893-94 ''This record has not been examined and may provide further information to add to the above.''
==Personnel==
*[[Augustus Le Messurier]] Col. R.E. from the [[Public Works Department]] was the Engineer-in-Chief from 1882 <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA546 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 546 (pdf page 509] Retrieved on 21 May 2016</ref>.
==Further Information==
See '''[[Mysore State Railway]]''' and '''[[ Southern Mahratta Railway]]''' up to 1907
<br>See '''[[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]''' from 1907
== References ==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Indian States Railways]]
