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The railway was a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line 145 miles(197km) long between the two sections of the GIPR connecting [[Manmad]] 162 miles (260km) from [[Bombay]] on the north-east section, with [[Dhond]] in Poona 167 miles(267km)  from [[Bombay]] on the south-east section.  
 
The railway was a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line 145 miles(197km) long between the two sections of the GIPR connecting [[Manmad]] 162 miles (260km) from [[Bombay]] on the north-east section, with [[Dhond]] in Poona 167 miles(267km)  from [[Bombay]] on the south-east section.  
<ref>[http://ahmednagar.gov.in/gazetteer/comm_railways.html  “The Maharashtra State Gazetteers  1976 / Ahmadnager District /  Communication / Railways”; e-version 2006"]; Retrieved 3 Feb 2016</ref>
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<ref name=name>[http://ahmednagar.gov.in/gazetteer/comm_railways.html  “The Maharashtra State Gazetteers  1976 / Ahmadnager District /  Communication / Railways”; e-version 2006"]; Retrieved 3 Feb 2016</ref>
  
The line was opened for traffic on the 17th of April 1878. Some large bridges which were begun in 1879 were not finished till the rains of 1880. Up to the end of 1880 the line was managed by Government; it was then handed to the GIPR. <ref>Bombay Gazetteer, Ahmadnagar, 1884, pp. 330-332.</ref>
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The line was opened for traffic on the 17th of April 1878. Some large bridges which were begun in 1879 were not finished till the rains of 1880. Up to the end of 1880 the line was managed by Government; it was then handed to the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]](GIPR) <ref name=name/>.  
  
 
==Personnel ==
 
==Personnel ==
*[[Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne ]] deployed from the Railway Branch of the [[Public Works Department]],1877-79, to the Dhond-Manmad State Railway as Assistant Engineer.
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*[[Ernest Ifill Shadbolt]] from the [[Public Works Department]] was posted as Assistant Engineer to the Dhond-Manmad State Railway in the period 1874-83 <ref>[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary.djvu/430 “Indian Biographical Dictionary” 1915 page 390]; Retrieved on 26 May 2016</ref>
 
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*[[Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne ]] deployed from the Railway Branch of the [[Public Works Department]], 1877-79, to the Dhond-Manmad State Railway as Assistant Engineer <ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Trevredyn_Rashleigh_Wynne Grace's Guide "Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne"] Retrieved on 26 May 2016</ref>.
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*[[John Edwin Dallas]], Assistant Engineer, also from the Railway Branch,  was posted after 1876 and before 1881 to the Dhond-Manmad State Railway for  'setting out and construction' <ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.163 Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers"] Retrieved on 26 May 2016</ref>.
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==Further Information==
 
==Further Information==
 
See '''[[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]]'''
 
See '''[[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]]'''

Revision as of 09:56, 26 May 2016

The Dhond-Manmad State Railway was a 'chord' line, constructed to connect the Great Indian Peninsula Railway(GIPR) south-eastern main line to Madras with the GIPR north-eastern main line to Allahabad.

The railway was a broad gauge(BG) line 145 miles(197km) long between the two sections of the GIPR connecting Manmad 162 miles (260km) from Bombay on the north-east section, with Dhond in Poona 167 miles(267km) from Bombay on the south-east section. [1]

The line was opened for traffic on the 17th of April 1878. Some large bridges which were begun in 1879 were not finished till the rains of 1880. Up to the end of 1880 the line was managed by Government; it was then handed to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway(GIPR) [1].

Personnel

Further Information

See Great Indian Peninsula Railway

References