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[[File: Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway.png|thumb| Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]]
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{{Line Railways Infobox
|image=Jamnagar & Dwarka Logo.png|caption= Jamnagar & Dwarka Logo
|route= [[Rajkot]] to [[Port Okha]]
|gauge1= Metre gauge
'''Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway'''(J&DR)
[[File: Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway.png|thumb| Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]]
The first section of what was then called the '''[[Jamnagar State Railway]]''' connected [[Jamnagar]] to the [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway]] at [[Rajkot]]. The metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]])with a length of 54 miles (86km) opened for traffic in 1897.
<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>
