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'''Kulasekharapatnam-Tissianvillai Light Railway''', later known as ''' Kulasekharapatnam Light Railway'''
==History==The '''Kulasekharapatnam- Tissianvillai Light Railway ''' was established in 1914 linking the sugar growing area of [[Tissianvillai]] ''(modern day Tisaiyanvilai)'' to [[Kulasekharapatnam]] at the extreme end southern tip of India.
<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulasekharapatnam Wikipedia "Kulasekharapatnam"]; Retrieved 26 Oct 2016</ref>
The line was originally constructed to carry jaggery (cane sugar) for the sole use of Parry and Co., Ltd., the Managing Agents of the East India Distilleries and Sugar Factories Ltd, the owners of the KPM Sugar Factory. The maintenance and use of the line for the public was authorised on 14 June 1914 and the 18 mile(29km) section from Tissianvillai to the factory at Kulasekharapatnam opened on 8 July 1915 <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n257/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 249]; Retrieved 26 Oct 2016</ref>.
The line became the ''' Kulasekharapatnam Light Railway''' as it later was later extended to [[Tiruchendur]], as a distance of 27 miles(43km) <ref name=hindu>[http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/madras-miscellany-indias-first-railway-line/article6668150.ece The Hindu Newspaper “Madras Miscellany” ]; Retrieved 26 Oct 2016</ref> with a short branch to Udangudi, and there was a regular daily service for public use as indicated in Bradshaw's Guide Timetable for 1933 <ref>[http://www.irfca.org/gallery/Heritage/timetables/Bradshaw_1933/South_India_NG_Timetables_11.jpg.html IRFCA "Bradshaw 1933 Timetable"; reproduced by Chris Pietruski, IRFCA ''Indian Railways Fan Club'']; Retrieved; 26 Oct 2016</ref>.
The line ceased operation in 1940 and its track was contributed as scrap to the war effort <ref name=hindu/>.
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