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[[Holkar State]] is also known as Indore State<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indore_State Wikipedia "Indore State"]; Retrieved 11 Dec 2015</ref> and some early records describe this railway as the '''Indore State Railway'''.
[[Horace Bell]] and [[Archibald Crellin Cregeen]] were deployed in 1870 from the newly formed Railway Branch of the [[Public Works Department]] to the Indore State Railway as Executive Engineers during the construction and the railway opened in 1874. [[Ernest Ifill Shadbolt]], who later became Director of Railway Construction for the Government of India, was Assistant Engineer, Construction. [[James Condor]] was appointed Manager of Holkar State Railway in 1881. He was, at the same time Manager of [[Sindia-Neemuch Railway]] and [[Neemuch Nasirabad State Railway]]<ref> [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA465 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 465 (pdf page 428)] Retrieved on 23 May 2016</ref>..
In 1881-82, the railway joined with others to form the '''[[Rajputana-Malwa State Railway]]''' (see'Algamation' below)
