Junagadh State Railway
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| Junagadh State Railway | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Line of route | ||
| Jetalsar to Veraval | ||
| Gauge / mileage | ||
| Metre gauge | 140 miles (1922) 229 miles (1944) | |
| Timeline | ||
| 1888 | First section opened to traffic | |
| Key locations | ||
| Presidency | Bombay | |
| Stations | Jetalsar, Juniagarh, Kutiyana, Veraval | |
| System agency | ||
| 1888 | Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway | |
| 1911 | Own agency | |
| How to interpret this infobox | ||
The Junagadh State Railway (JunSR) was a metre gauge(MG) railway owned by the Princely Junagadh State and intially worked by the Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway [1]
From 1911 the JunSR worked itself as an independent system, owned by the Junagadh Durbar, until 1948 when it became part of the Saurashtra Railway.
Records
An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [2] gives the following:-
- R/1/1/4784(1) and (2); "File 110-IB(C)/1935 Proposed taking over of management of the Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway by the Junagadh State Railway from the Gondal Railway"; 1935
This record requires examination to determine if the Junagadh State Railway were sucessful in the takeover of the management of Jetalsar-Rajkot Railway
