Bangalore Hindupur Railway
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The Bangalore Hindupur Railway is mentioned in the India Office Records (IOR) stated below. It was a section of the Mysore State Railway(MSR), a metre gauge(MG) railway worked by the Southern Mahratta Railway (SMR) .
The line was a branch from Yesvantpur , 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Bangalore) on the Bangalore Harihar Railway that had opened by MSR in 1884 [1].
The 51 mile(82km) section from Yesvantpur to the Mysore Frontier at Hindupur had 9 stations and opened in 1893 [2]. It is also described in some records as the Hindupur-Yesvantpur Railway.
Further Information
See Mysore State Railway and Southern Mahratta Railway up to 1907
See Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway from 1907
References
- ↑ “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 90 (pdf99); Retrieved 11 Feb 2017
- ↑ British Library IOR/ 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
