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‘Broach-Jambusar-Masor Road(Kangat) Branch’ text corrected with link
* ‘Dabhoi-Baroda Line’ (“Red Line B”); 19miles(34km) NG: Dabhoi to Goya Gate, 17 miles(31km), 1880 Jul 1; Goya Gate to [[Baroda]] (Vishvamitri Station), 2 miles(3km), 1881 Jan 24.
* ‘Baroda-Masor Road Line’ (“Red Line C”); 20 miles(32km) NG: Baroda (Vishvamitri Station) to Padra, 7 miles(11km), 1897 Jul 1; Padra to Mobha, 6 miles(10km), 1903 Jul 10; Mobha to Masor Road, 7 miles(11km), 1904 Nov 1.
* ‘Miyaram ‘Miyagam Karjan-Malsar Line’ (“Red Line D”); 24 miles(44km) NG: extension to the ‘Dabhoi-Miyaram Line’, first proposed in 1906 as the ‘GDR ‘ Miyagam-Sinor Branch’<ref name=Hist1906/>, and later extended giving total 44 miles(56km) from [[MiyaramMiyagam]] via Choranda Junction and Sinor to [[Malsar]], 1912 Jan 15
* ‘Dabhoi-Timba Line’ (“Red Line E”) 62 miles(100km) NG: Daboi to Jarod, 24 miles(38km), 1913 Nov 15; Jarod to Samlaya Junction, 5 miles(9km), 1915 Dec 13; Samlaya via Savli to Timba, 33 miles(53km) 1919 Feb 1
* ‘Masor Road-Jambusar Line’ (“Red Line F”); 7 miles(11km) NG: an extension of the ‘Baroda-Masor Road Line’ reaching [[Jambusar]], 1917 May 1.
A number of projects were considered, some were abandoned and, several were postponed on account of WW1. The progress had been restricted by “the large contribution arising from lack of funds caused by the large contribution, both direct and indirect, which the Native States had made to the Imperial resources for the conduct of the war” <ref name=Hist1906/>. Some were finally completed after 1921 by GBSR.
* ‘Broach-Jambusar-Masor Road(Kangat) Branch’, 31 miles (50km) NG: proposed 1903 then abandoned <ref name=Hist1906/> The GDR ‘Masor Road-Jambusar Section’ was finally opened in 1917. ‘Jambusar The ‘[[Broach-Broach Section’ Jambusar Railway]]’ was not connected until after constructed by the GBSR took over BB&CIR and opened in 1921Nov 1914. 1914 as a branch of the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) <ref name=Admin1918p35>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n44/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page35 (pdf44) ]; Retrieved 13 Feb 2018</ref>
* ‘Kosamba- Zankavao Section’, 26 miles(42km) NG, surveyed in 1900 <ref name=Hist1906/>. Not constructed until after 1921 by the GBSR as part of the ‘Kosamba- Zankavao-Umarpada Line’.
* ‘Zankavao-Vajipur Section’, 26 miles(42km) NG, surveyed in 1903 <ref name=Hist1906/>, ''apparently never constructed.''
