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The [[Bezwada]]-[[Madras]] Railway was surveyed in November 1893 by Consulting Engineer F J E [[Francis Joseph Edward Spring]].The 1898 detailed scale drawings of bridges, stations, offices, railway station machinery, temporary buildings, road crossings designs of were made by [[E J Moore []] Engineer-in-Chief of the Bezwada-Madras Railway] and [[J C Lyle ]] being his Assistant.<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA546&lpg=PA546&dq=Bangalore+Harihar+Railway&source=bl&ots=eoKE12owR5&sig=MbPq4iwigkvPzjvei8V9yFNdhRw&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBTgoahUKEwigyYWWz_nIAhXKPRQKHSkaDyY#v=onepage&q=Bangalore%20Harihar%20Railway&f=false Google Books - "India and Indian Office List, 1905 - Record of Services" page 546];Retrieved 9 Dec 201516 Apr 2016</ref>

The 273 mile(440km) broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) railway was built and operated by the [[Madras Railway|Madras Railway Company]]. The ‘Madras-Bezwada Railway Section’ was constructed from 1893 and fully opened in by 1899 linking [[Madras]] to [[Bezwada]] via [[Gudur]] and [[Nellore]]. The ‘Gudur - Nellore Section’ had first been constructed as part of a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line by the South Indian Railway(SIR) which had opened in 1888 and converted by the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]into BG line in 1899.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n90/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 82 (M&SMRpdf 90)]; Retrieved 24 Dec 2017</ref>.   ==Personnel==No Staff Lists have been found. The “Indian Biographical Dictionary” gives [[Ernest Ifill Shadbolt]], [[Public Works Department]], Executive Engineer from 1888 to 1893 as 'Engineer-in-Chief of the Bezwada-Madras Railway Survey ''and Madura-Pamban, Tinnevelly-Quilon Railway Surveys'' ' <ref>[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary.djvu/430 “Indian Biographical Dictionary” 1915 page 390]; Retrieved on 27 May 2016</ref>