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''Agreement' added with BL info from Steve Moore's research, Map added & minor changes
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[[File:Godhra-Lunavada Railway Map.png|thumb|Godhra-Lunavada Railway]]The '''Godhra-Lunavada Railway''' was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) line, opened in 1912 and reached [[Lunavada]] in 1914. The railway length of 26 miles(41km) and was served from the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]] (BB&CIR) station [[Godhra]].
The railway was owned and managed by the [[Guzerat Railway Company|Guzrat Railways Company]]. The company was taken over by the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) in 1922
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n236/mode/2up 1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 228]; Retrieved 26 Dec 201616 Feb 2018</ref>
== Agreement==
An Agreement was signed 30 Apr 1914 between the Secretary of State for India and [[Killick, Nixon & Company]] of [[Bombay]] with partners Lowther Robert Windham Forest, Sir Henry Edward Eddleston, Procter Knight, Thomas The Company shall construct, complete and make ready and fit for opening for public traffic throughout on a route to be selected and determined by the Secretary of State, a railway, from the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Station at Nadiad to Kapadvani; and a railway from the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Station at Godhra to Lunavada William Berkett, Walter Henry Ogston, and Harold Percival Hebblethwaite <ref>British Library ‘India Office Records’ F/8/17 (1360) “Nadiad-Kapadvanj and Godhralunavada Railways, Agreement and indenture; 1914 ''</ref>
==Records==
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]]
An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 26 Jan 2016</ref>
gives the following: -
*'''L/F/8/17/13611360''' “Nadiad-Kapadvanj and Godhralunavada Railways, Agreement and indenture; 1914. ''(Note Catalogue typo error Godhra-Lunavada is the correctspelling)''
==Further Information==
