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The line opened 1914-15 A contract was made, dated 5 Feb 1920, between the Government of India and it added to the prosperity GIPR formalising the arrangement for the earlier construction and continued working of the sugarcane industry in ‘Dhond and Baramati Railway’ by the regionGIPR. It was worked by [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]](GIPR)<ref>[https:This Agreement IOR/L/ia801009.us.archive.orgF/8/items19/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 77]; Retrieved 17 Dec 20151483 has been transcribed by FIBIS </ref><ref>[https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Poona/PART%20IV/Chap%20%289%29/Railways.htm Goverment/Maharashtra "Gazetteer/Poona"]; Retrieved 17 Dec 2015British Library ‘Indian Office Records’ </ref><ref>[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/bitstream/1/15610/1/2806.pdf "Economic Life in the Bombay Decan" (1818-1939)]; Retrieved 17 Dec 2015</ref>
An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway==Further Information==<ref>See '''[[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - SearchCentral Provinces Railway Co Ltd]]; Retrieved 22 Jan 2016</ref>gives the following: -*'''L /F/8/19/1483 and ''' “Great [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company, Contract for working and maintenance of a railway from Dhond to Baramati; 1920” *'''L /F/8/19/1446 ]]''' “Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company, Contract for working and maintenance of a railway from Dhond to Baramati; 1920”
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[[Category:Private Railways]]
[[Category:Narrow Gauge (NG) Railways]]
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[[File: Dhond-Baramati Railway.png|thumb| Dhond-Baramati Railway]]
The '''Dhond-Baramati Railway''' 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) privately owned railway was under construction in 1913 by ‘Dhond and Baramati Railway Company’.
The '''line opened in May 1914 linking [[Dhond-Baramati Railway''' 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(]] to [[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NGBaramati]], a line length of 27 miles(43km) railway , and it added to the prosperity of the sugarcane industry in the region. The line was under construction in 1913 and worked (together with other NG lines owned by [[Central Provinces Railway Co Ltd]]), by the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]](GIPR) as part of the GIPR - NG network and connected at [[Dhond]] to the GIPR mainline <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n85/mode/1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 77]; Retrieved 15 Nov 2018</ref><ref>[https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Poona/PART%20IV/Chap%20%289%29/Railways.htm Goverment/Maharashtra "Gazetteer/Poona"]; Retrieved 17 Dec 2015</ref><ref>[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/bitstream/1/15610/1/2806.pdf "Economic Life in the Bombay Decan (CPR1818-1939)" by R.D.Choksey; pages 145 and 178]; Retrieved 3 Feb 2016</ref>
The railway came under Government of India([[Government of India |GoI]]) management from 1925.
==Records==
No specific records for the personnel engaged on this railway have been found.
Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the [http://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0004-research-sources-for-indian-railways-1845-1947/ Fibis shop]. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]]
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