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Date change 1930-31 and ref change; 'Classification' and 'Later Development' headings added
[[File:Bikaner State Railway.png|right|400px|Bikaner State Railway ]]
In 19361930-37 31 the open line route mileage for the BkSR had expanded to 796 miles(1281km) of metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) lines <refname=Hist1937> “Report by the [https://ia801605.us.archive.org/30/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/2015.36650.India-Railway -Board on -History-Of-Indian -Railways for 1936-37” Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 119 (223, pdf 151)266 ]; Retrieved 19 Aug 2020</ref> as follows:-
* ‘Main Line’, MG, 249 miles(401km). Bhagu(Marwar Frontier) to Bhatinda - ''details as above''
* ‘Hisar Extension Line’, MG, 136 miles(219km). Marwar Frontier to Hisar - ''details as above''
With a further 86 miles (138km) sanctioned for construction
* ‘Sadulpur-Rewari Line’, sanctioned for construction in 1937, 86 miles (138km). “The line will traverse portions of the Bikaner, Loharu, Patiala and Nabha States and the Gurgaon District of the Punjab, and is intende to develop an area rather thinly populated and at present unirrigated” <ref>[http://hdl.handle.net/10973/18160 “Report by the Railway Board on Indian Railways for 1936-37. Vol. I; Railway Department, Government of India” Para 37, page 40 pdf 55]; Retrieved 8 Jul 2020</ref>
The ‘Statistics of Working’, 1937 <ref name=Hist1937/> show the year-by-year financial results from 1913-14 through to 1936-37 and the BSR System rising from 470 miles(756km) reaching 796 miles (1281km) from 1930-31 onwards<ref name=Hist1937/>
By 1943 the BkSR was operating a network of 883 miles(1421km)
== Classification ==
[[Indian Railway Classification]] of 1926 - Class II railway system.
==Later Development==
At Independence in 1947 the western portions of the ‘[[Bikaner State Railway]]’, the ‘[[Jodhpur State Railway ]]’ and the British section of the ‘[[Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway]]’ were ceded to the government of Pakistan becoming part of ‘[[Pakistan Railways]]’<ref>[http://rajasthanhistory.com/gpage5.html “History of Rail in Rajasthan” by Dr Mohanlal Gupta, Department of Information and Public Relations, Government of Rajasthan, Jodhpur]; Retrieved 18 Nov 2016</ref>.
The remaining eastern portions of the ‘[[Bikaner State Railway]]’ and the ‘[[Jodhpur State Railway ]]’, excluding the ‘Marwar-Phulad Section’ became part of the of [[Northern Railway| ‘Indian Railways - Northern Railway Zone’ ]] in 1952
==Further Information==
