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This line was originally called the '''Jamnagar State Railway''' after the district around Navanager and connected to the [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway]] at [[Rajkot]].
<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/itemsstream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf #page/n196/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 184]; Retrieved 18 Dec 20156 Feb 2016</ref>
The line was worked as part of the [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway]](BGJPR) system until 1911. Later, when the line was extended westwards to [[Dwarka]] and [[Port Okha]] on the [[Gulf of Cutch]], the system was renamed the '''[[Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]]'''(J&DR).
<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=riBJH0J1FR0C&pg=PA457&lpg=PA457&dq=%22Jamnagar+State+Railway%22&source=bl&ots=8nuO4FsGHp&sig=_xZIznEHa2wJFpGQ-MEurLPtmeA&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjM9ZjI2KPJAhWJ0xQKHagPAkwQ6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=%22Jamnagar%20State%20Railway%22&f=false Google Books "Indian States: A Biographical, Historical, and Administrative Survey" by Somerset Playne,R. V. Solomon,J. W. Bond,Arnold Wright]; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015</ref>
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/monographonindia00ghos/monographonindia00ghos_djvu.txt "A monograph on Indian railway rates" by S.C.Ghose 1918. Published by Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta, 1918]; Retrieved 14 Jan 2016</ref>
