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Broach-Jambusar Railway

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'''Broach-Jambusar Railway'''
The connection of [[Broach]] to [[Jambusar]] to transport cotton from Jambusar to the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) at Broach was first considered in 1903 by the [[Baroda]] Durbar as a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) branch of the [[Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway]] but the project was abandoned.<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/ pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V14_051.gif&volume=14 "Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 14, p. 45. 1908"];Retrieved 10 Dec 201521 Feb 2016</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/RailwayProjects/Railway%20projects#page/n0/mode/2up "Histories of (Indian)Railway Projects ...up to June 1906"; Page 17];Retrieved 10 Dec 201521 Feb 2016</ref> .
The line was finally opened as a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG ]]) branch of the BB&CIR network in 1914-15 connecting [[Broach]] to [[Jambusar]], a line length of 29 miles(47km) <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n43/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 35]; Retrieved 31 Jan 21 Feb 2016</ref>. ==Further Information== See '''[[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]]'''
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