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The '''Kathiawar State Railway''' was owned by the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Kathiawar State]] and opened in 1880 between Surendranagar and Bhavnagar, also known as the '''Surendranagar-Bhavnagar Railway'''. <ref>[http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history2.html IRFCA "Chronology of railways in India, Part 2 (1870 - 1899) – 1880"]; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavnagar_State_Railway Wikipedia "Bhavnagar State Railway"]; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surendranagar-Bhavnagar_line Wikipedia Surendranagar-Bhavnagar line"]; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015</ref>
The There are records that the give this as the title used from 1879-91 to describe the railway was later worked by from [[Wadhwan]] on the south side of the Bhogawo River (facing [[Surendranager]] ) to the docks at [[Bhavnagar State Railway]] which , this was a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) network line that opened in December 1880<ref>[http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history2.html IRFCA "Chronology of railways in India, Part 2 (1870 - 1899)" 'Year 1880']; Retrieved 19 Jun 2017</ref>, also known as the '''Surendranagar-Bhavnagar Railway'''<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surendranagar-Bhavnagar_line Wikipedia Surendranagar-Bhavnagar line"]; Retrieved 19 Jun 2017</ref>
It is assumed therefore that This became the Kathiawar start of the [[Bhavnagar State Railway was a MG line]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavnagar_State_Railway Wikipedia "Bhavnagar State Railway"]; Retrieved 19 Jun 2017</ref>
'Kathiawar Peninsula Railway and Tramway Systems' page link added under 'Further Information'
==Personnel==The Records show the following deployed to the 'Kathiawar State Railway' *[[Bhavnagar Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne ]] deployed from the Railway Branch of the [[Public Works Department]], 1879-83, to the Kathiawar State Railwayas Assistant Engineer, later promoted to Executive Engineer.*[[John Edwin Dallas]] and , Assistant Engineer, also from the railway Branch was P.A. to the Engineer-in-Chief Kathiawar State Railway merged into , from 1881. *[[Saurashtra RailwayErnest Ifill Shadbolt]] in April, 1948 also from the railway Branch was Executive Engineer, Kathiawar State Railway, 1887-91.
==Further Information==See '''[[Bhavnagar State Railway]]''' and '''[[Kathiawar Peninsula Railway and Tramway Systems]]''' gives a map, timeline and relates this railway to others in the Kathiawar Peninsula. == References ==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:State Railways]]
[[Category:Indian States Railways]]
