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The [[File:Jodhpur Railway_System_1937_Map.png|thumb|Jodhpur Stae Railway System 1937 Map]]'''Jodhpur State Railway''' (JSR) was created in 1924, the exact mileage comprising the “Jodhpur Section” is not known but in 1918 it was 687 miles(1105km) plus 124 miles(200km) of the [[Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway]](British Section).
1937 Map added
==1924 onwards==
Writing critically in 1929 about third class travelling, Mahatma Ghandi condemned the latrines in JSR carriages as being "absolutely intolerable, insanitary and unfit for human use . . . The State railways should really be a model to the British system; whereas the actual state of things is the other way."
<ref>[http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL045.PDF Mahatma Ghandi, "Third-Class Travelling, ''Letters of Mahatma Ghandi'', Vol 45, 14 Feb 1929 page 41]; Retrieved 14 Jan 2016</ref>
In 1936-37 the route mileage for the JSR had expanded to 767 miles(1234km); they were also operating the British section of the [[Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway]](British Section), expanded to 239 miles(384km) and also the [[Mirpur Khas-Khadro Railway]], 49 miles(79km). All these being metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) lines <ref>[httphttps://oudlia801605.osmaniaus.acarchive.inorg/bitstream30/handleitems/OUDLin.ernet.dli.2015.36650/11097/212975_Indian_Railways_1936_1937_Vol_I2015.36650.pdf?sequence=2 “Report by the India-Railway -Board on -History-Of-Indian -Railways for 1836-37” Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India – Railway Department’, page 118 116, pdf 150147 ]; Retrieved 18 Nov 2016Apr 2020</ref>.
At Independence in 1947, the British section of the [[Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway]] and the western portions of Jodhpur State Railway and [[Bikaner State Railway]] was ceded to the government of Pakistan becoming part of [[Pakistan Railways]]<ref>[http://rajasthanhistory.com/gpage5.html “History of Rail in Rajasthan” by Dr Mohanlal Gupta, Department of Information and Public Relations, Government of Rajasthan, Jodhpur]; Retrieved 18 Nov 2016</ref>.
