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==History==Originally named '''Jodhpur Railway'''. In July 1882 the Marwar-Pali section was opened to traffic; by March 1885 the railway to Jodhpur had been declared open. 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 1924, the '''Jodhpur State Railway''' (JSR) was created and took over responsibility for working the [[Jodhpur]] section of the [[Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway]], including the British section of the [[Jodhpur-Hyderabad Railway]].
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 wasy." (1)
