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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 [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]](GIPR) <ref name=name/>and became part of the [[Great_Indian_Peninsula_Railway_-_Lines_owned_and_worked#GIPR_South_East_Branches|'''GIPR South East Division''']].
==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 <ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Trevredyn_Rashleigh_Wynne Grace's Guide "Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne"] Retrieved on 26 May 2016</ref>.
*[[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>.
*[[Alexander Izat]], Chief Engineer, on loan from PWD c.1878 <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavnagar_State_Railway Wikipedia "Bhavnagar State Railway"]; Retrieved on 18 Jul 2016</ref>*[[James Rhind]], Assistant to [[Alexander Izat]] c.1878-80 <ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/James_Rhind Grace's Guide "James Rhind"] Retrieved on 25 Jul 2016</ref>. *[[Thomas Freeman Dowden]] Col. R.E. was appointed Manager of the Dhond-Manmad State Railway in the years 1878-79 <ref> [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA479 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 479 (pdf page 442)] Retrieved on 26 May 2016</ref>.*[[W J Engledue|Capt.W.J.Engledue]], Offg.Manager Dhond and Manmad State Railway 1880 [[Indian_Railway_Conference_Association#Railway_Conference| ‘Railway Conference’ delegate]]
==Further Information==
''See '' '''[[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]]'''<br>''See also'' [[Great_Indian_Peninsula_Railway_-_Lines_owned_and_worked#GIPR_South_East_Mainline|'''GIPR South East Division''']]
== References ==
