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'Agreement' added with BL info from Steve Moore's research, Map added & minor changes
[[File:Nadiad-Kapadvanj Railway Map.png|thumb|Nadiad-Kapadvanj Railway]]The '''Nadiad-Kapadvanj Railway''' was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) line, opened in 1913, a length of 28 miles(45km) and served from linked [[NadiadKapadvanj]]. The railway was owned and managed by to the [[Guzerat Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Company]].<ref>(BB&CIR) station at [[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n243/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 235Nadiad]]; Retrieved 26 Jan 2016</ref><ref>[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10973/18185/GIPE-015962.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y "Railways in India – GOI Administritive Report 1916-17"]; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015</ref>
The railway was owned and managed by the [[Guzerat Railway Company]].
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n243/mode/1up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 235]; Retrieved 16 Feb 2018</ref>.
The company was taken over by the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) in 1922
== Agreement==
An Agreement was signed 30 Apr 1914 between the Secretary of State for India and [[Killick, Nixon & Company]] of [[Bombay]] with partners Lowther Robert Windham Frorest, Sir Henry Edward Eddleston Procter, Thomas William Berkett, Walter Henry Ogston and Harold Percival Hebblethwaite. The Company shall construct, complete and make ready and fit for opening for public traffic throughout on a route to be selected and determined by the Secretary of State, a railway, from the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Station at Nadiad to Kapadvani; and a railway from the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Station at Godhra to Lunavada <ref>British Library ‘India Office Records’ F/8/17 (1360) “Nadiad-Kapadvanj and Godhralunavada Railways, Agreement and indenture; 1914 ''</ref>
==Records==
An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved Jan 2016</ref>
gives the following: -
*'''L/F/8/17/13611360''' “Nadiad-Kapadvanj and Godhralunavada Railways, Agreement and indenture; 1914" ''(Note Catalogue typo error Godhra-Lunavada is the correct spelling)''
==Further Information==
See '''[[Guzerat Railway Company| Guzerat Railways Company]]''' until 1922, then the '''[[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]]'''
