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'History' Para 3 added with Steve Moore's BL IOR info
The operation of the line ran smoothly until the dissolution of the BGJPR. The agreement stated that the Railway Board would decide who the operator of the Railway would be. They granted this to Gondal in 1911 <ref name=memorial/>.
In 1913 the Annual report from Rajkot stated that “The large increase in profits on the Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway is due to the J-R being an integral Railway since 1911. The split of the BGJP Railway has contributed to the securing on the hire its legitimate share of traffic” <ref>British Library ‘India Office Record’ V/10/1811 “Rajkot Administrative Reports 1909/10-1927/28” - 1913 Annual Report</ref>.
With the inclusions of the Kathiawar Ports into the [[Kathiawar_Peninsula_Railway_and_Tramway_Systems#Customs_Union_of_British_India|'Customs Union of British India' ''– see separate page'']] <ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15023 “Kathiawar Economics” by A. B. Trivedi Bombay 1943 Page 202]; Retrieved 24 Sept 2017</ref> at about the same time, a growth of lines connecting the various ports started. The ‘Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway’ was an important link for north-south traffic and the Railway Board specified the proportion of traffic to and from the various State Ports. <ref name=IOR> British Library ‘India Office Records’ R/1/1/14784(1) “Proposed takeover of the management of the Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway by the Junagadh State Railway from Gondal Railway” Gondal’s reply P1, 1935</ref>.
