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Additional IOR Record (with request for examination) added and text changes.
The '''Dhrangadhra Railway''' (DR) was a short metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line owned by the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Dhrangadhra State]].
Initially, the DR was worked by the [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway]]; and from 1911 by [[Bhavnagar State Railway|Bhavnagar State Railways]].
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n178/mode/2up "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 170]; Retrieved 3 Feb 2016</ref>
The IOR Record R/2/746/306 (see 'Records' below) implies that the railway was, in 1916-18, called the Dhrangadhra-Morvi Railway. Also the town of Malia has not been identified.''These need clarification by examination of the IOR records''. Later it , ''(date not established)'', the DR was worked by [[Morvi Railway]] before becoming part of the newly formed [[Saurashtra Railway]] in 1948.
==Records==
<ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 22 Jan 2016</ref>
gives the following: -
*'''R/2/746/306; "File R/C 540:1916-1918:25 Railways - Extension of Dhrangadhra-Morvi Railway to Malia"; 1916-1918 *L/F/7/299 ''' ; “Collection 31/3: Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway: Contract as to the costs of Railway Board's control of the Dhrangadhra Railway; 1930” *'''L/F/8/20/1760 ''' ; “Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway Company, Contract as to the costs of the Railway Board's control of the Dhrangadhra Railway; 1930”
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