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The name, '''Mysore State Railway''' (MSR), originally referred to the metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line which connected the State capital, [[Mysore]], to [[Bangalore]] and named the [[Mysore-Bangalore Railway]]. Later, MSR, or '''Mysore Railway''' as it was sometimes known in this context, was the name applied to a network of disjointed metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) branch lines owned by the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Mysore State]] Durbar.
Following the disastrous famine of 1876-1877, the original sections of the MSR were planned and built by the State of Mysore, opening to traffic during 1881-1882. In 1887, in order to eradicate its "famine debt", the State of Mysore leased the MSR to the [[Southern Mahratta Railway]] (SMR) for a period of 45 years.
<ref> [http://www.irfca.org/articles/manning/mysore.html "The Ex-Mysore State Metre Gauge Lines" by Ian Manning 2007. Placed on IRFCA ''Indian Railways Fan Club'' Server] Retrieved on 9 Feb 2016</ref>.
In 1907, the SMR transformed itself into the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]] (M&SMR), with the lease following. At this time, the Railway Department of the State of Mysore was defunct.
== 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]]
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 26 Jan 2016</ref>
gives the following: -
*'''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"
Unfortunately, there are no MSR Staff agreements held at the [[British Library]] in the [[India Office Records]].
== External links References == [http://www.irfca.org/articles/manning/mysore.html "The Ex-Mysore State Metre Gauge Lines"] ''Ian Manning on the Indian Railways 1965-1969 : Mysore''. IRFCA Server. [http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/currsci/9/00000638.pdf "Railway Development in the State" p xxxviii] [http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/currsci/9/00000639.pdf p xxxix] [http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/currsci/9<references /00000640.pdf p xl] ''Current Science'', vol 9, September 1940 (Indian Academy of Sciences).>
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