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An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway <ref name=name>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved Jan 2016</ref>
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*'''L/F/8/20/1704''' “Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company Limited, Contract as to transfer of Mysore-Nanjangud, Birur-Shimoga and Mysore-Bangalore sections of the Mysore Railway to the Mysore Durbar; 1924"
1919 Paragraph added re reversion and reference moved from ‘Records’
The '''Mysore-Nanjangud Railway''' was a short metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line that extended the [[Mysore State Railway]](MSR) mainline from [[Mysore]] to [[Nanjangud]]. The railway was owned by the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Mysore State]] Durbar and worked by the MSR
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n100/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 92]; Retrieved 26 Jan 2016</ref>.
The MSR became the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]](M&SMR) in 1907, they worked the line until 1919 when . In 1919, the [[Mysore State]] successfully sought the reversion of the [[Mysore-Bangalore Railway| ‘Mysore -Bangalore Section’]] and two branch lines, the ‘[[Birur-Shimoga Railway]]’ and the ‘'''Mysore-Nanjangud Railway'''’ became the railway was transferred ‘[[Mysore State Railway]]’(MSR) <ref> British Library IOR L/F/8/20/1704‘Contract with the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Co.Ltd as to the transfer of Mysore-Nanjangud , Birur-Shimoga and Mysore-Bangalore Railways sections of the Mysore Railway to the M&SMRMysore Durbar. Dated 24 Oct 1924 effective 1 Oct 1919</ref name=name/>.
==Records==
Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the [http://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0004-research-sources-for-indian-railways-1845-1947/ Fibis shop]. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]]
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