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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]]<ref>[http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history2.html IRFCA "Chronology of railways in India, Part 2 (1870 - 1899)" 'Year 1880']; Retrieved 7 Feb 2016</ref>, also known as the '''Surendranagar-Bhavnagar Railway'''. <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/Bhavnagar_State_Railway Surendranagar-Bhavnagar_line Wikipedia "Surendranagar-Bhavnagar State Railwayline"]; Retrieved 12 Dec 201519 Jun 2017</ref>. It is assumed therefore that the Kathiawar State Railway was a MG line.

The This became the start of the [[Bhavnagar State Railway]] and the Kathiawar <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavnagar_State_Railway Wikipedia "Bhavnagar State Railway merged into [[Saurashtra Railway]"] in April, 1948 ; Retrieved 19 Jun 2017</ref>

*[[John Edwin Dallas]], Assistant Engineer, also from the railway Branch was P.A. to the Engineer-in-Chief Kathiawar State Railway, from 1881. *[[Ernest Ifill Shadbolt]], also from the railway Branch was Executive Engineer , Kathiawar State Railway, 1887-91.

==Further Information==See '''[[Bhavnagar State Railway]]'''  == References ==