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The '''[[File: Chikballapur-Bangalore City Railway''' was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_GaugeMap.png| thumb|NG]]) railway, operated by the [[Mysore State Railway]](MSR). This city railway was effectively an extension of the [[BowringpetChikballapur-Chikballapur Bangalore City Railway]].. <ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 210]; Retrieved 17 Dec 2015</ref>

The '''Chikballapur-Bangalore City Railway''', also described as the '''Bangalore-Chik Ballapur Light Railway''', was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Kolar Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway, operated by the ‘[[Mysore State Railway]]’(MSR). This railway was an enterprise by an Indian Company floated for the purpose under a guarantee from the Mysore Durbar . Construction was sanctioned in 1909 but the Company was unable to raise the entire capital and Mysore Durbar became joint owners <ref name=Admin>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n218/mode/1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 210]; Retrieved 14 Oct 2020</ref> The NG railway, 39 miles(62km) from [[Bangalore]] City via Yelanka to [[Chik-Ballapur]] opened in stages from 1915 from [[Chik-Ballapur]] where it connected to the NG ‘[[Kolar District BoardRailway]] ’ , to Yellanka in 1917 and finally reached Bangalore in 1918<ref name=Admin/>. Together these two railways were operated by the owners ‘[[Mysore State Railway]]’ as part of the ‘MSR System’ and provided a NG connection between [[Bangalore]] and [[Bowringpet]].  ==Later Development==The section near Bangalore to Yelanka , 10 miles(16km), was subsequently dismantled<ref name=name>[http://www.irfca.org/articles/isrs/isrs082004-steam-history.html "Steam in History (India)"/ Yelahaka-Bangarpet Line by R R Bhandari. Reproduced by IRFCA ''Indian Railways Fan Club'']; Retrieved 14 Oct 2020</ref> leaving the line with the description '''ChikballapurYelahaka-Bangalore City Bangarpet Railway''' , worked as part of the ‘[[Mysore State Railway]]’(MSR).  The date of this part closure has not been determined, it was certainly after 1937 <ref name=Hist>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/30/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and also in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 250, pdf 293 ]; Retrieved 14 Oct 2020</ref> where is was noted that this section had been converted to mixed gauge 2ft 6 in [[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]] and metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) with running rights given to the ‘[[Yelahaka-Bangarpet Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]’(M&SMR). It can be assumed this section, once closed was operating on [[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]] by the M&SMR. ==External links==*[http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/siddharth-raja-on-the-100yearold-nandi-halt-station-that-time-forgot/article8537161.ece "The station that time forgot"] by Siddharth Raja April 30, 2016 ''The Hindu''. Nandi Halt station, at the foot of the Nandi Hills, was on part of the line which opened August 1, 1915.