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== History ==
The JBR had its beginnings in a section of metre gauge railway built for the [[Rajputana-Malwa Railway]] between [[Marwar]] and [[Luni]]. Later this section was extended to [[Jodhpur]] and formed the first '''Jodhpur Railway'''.
In 1889, the two States of Jodhpur and Bikhaner formed the '''Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway''' (JBR ) to promote railway development jointly within the Rajasthan Agency.
In 1891, rapid progress was made in constructing the railway from [[Jodhpur]] to [[Bikaner]], later (1901-1902) extended to [[Bhatinda]] where the JBR connected with the metre gauge Metre Gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) section of the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]], and the broad gauge Broad Gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) [[North Western Railway|North Western]] and the [[Southern Punjab Railway|Southern Punjab Railways]].
In 1924, the JBR was split into its two constituent parts, with two new systems, the [[Jodhpur State Railway|Jodhpur]] and [[Bikhaner State Railway|Bikhaner State Railways]], formed to work the lines.
