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The [[Navanagar File:Jamnagar State Railway.png|thumb|Jamnagar State Railway]] from [[Navanager]] Construction commenced in 1893 with Lord Harris ++''(see footnote)'', the Governor of the Presidency of Bombay, turning the first sod in the construction of the Rajkot to Navanagar line <ref>[[Rajkot]] opened in 1897https://archive. The line was a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_org/stream/pts_historyofkathiaw_3721-1226#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line with a length page/290/mode/1up “The History of 54 miles (87km) and owned Kathiwad” by Capt H Wilberforce-Bell; published by Navanager StateWilliam Heinmann, London, 1916; page 252 ]; Retrieved 31 Jul 2017</ref>.

This line was originally called the '''Jamnagar State Railway''' after the district around Navanager and connected to the +Note: [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar RailwayJamnagar]] at , previously Navanagar, is the main town in [[RajkotNavanager State]]. <ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 184]; Retrieved 18 Dec 2015</ref>

The line was worked as part of the railway from [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar RailwayRajkot]](BGJPR) system until 1911. Later, when the line was extended westwards to [[DwarkaJamnagar]] and in the Kathiawar peninsular, opened in 1897 with an extension for goods traffic to Bedi Bunder Port, 4 miles(6.4km) north of [[Port OkhaJamnagar]] on the . The line was a metre gauge([[Gulf of CutchRail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]], the system was renamed ) line with a length of 54 miles (87km) and constructed by the '''[[Jamnagar and Dwarka RailwayPrincely states|Princely ]]'''(J&DR). <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=riBJH0J1FR0C&pg=PA457&lpg=PA457&dq=%22Jamnagar+[Navanager 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/monographonindia00ghosBombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/monographonindia00ghos_djvu.txt Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n192/mode/1up "A monograph Administration Report on Indian railway ratesthe Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918" by S.C.Ghose 1918; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 184]; Retrieved 12 Dec 201531 Jul 2017</ref>.

This line was also called the '''Navanagar State Railway''' after the district around Navanager and connected to the [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway]](BGJPR) system at [[Rajkot]]. The line was worked as part of the BGJPR)system until 1911.  The BGJPR administrative coalition was dissolved in 1911 with the constituents going their independent ways. The 'Jamnager State Railway ' worked its own railway from [[Rajkot ]] to Jamnager [[Jamnagar]]; with the [[Junagadh State Railway]] taking over the working of its system from [[JetslarJetalsar]] to [[VeravelVeraval]] including its branches. In 1923, when the line was extended westwards to Kuranga and [[Dwarka]] where the system joined the [[Okhamandal State Railway]]. The two being renamed the '''[[Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]]'''(J&DR) <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamnagar_%26_Dwarka_Railway “Dwarka Railway” ]; Retrieved 31 Jul 2017</ref>, being responsible for the operation and maintainence of the two railways and linking [[Rajkot]] to Port Okha on the Gulf of Cutch,.  ==Further Information==See '''[[Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]]'''<br> and '''[[Kathiawar Peninsula Railway and Tramway Systems]]''' for the timeline and map showing the relationship to other railways in region.  ''' ''Footnote'' '''<br>++ Lord Harris (1851-1932) - His political posts were Under-Secretary of State for India from 25 June 1885; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War from 1886-1890; Governor of the Presidency of Bombay from 1890-1895; <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harris,_4th_Baron_Harris Wikipedia “Colonel George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris”]; Retrieved 31 Jul 2017</ref>.