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Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway

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Full name: {{Infobox_Railways|image=|caption= |description=[[Wadi]] to [[Bezwada]][[Hyderabad]] to [[Manmad]]|date1=1870|date1details=Formation|date2=1879|date2details=Becomes state railway|date3=|date3details= |date4=|date4details= |date5=1950|date5details=Nationalisation |company1=1874|company1details=Wadi-Secunderabad Railway (BG)|company2=1889|company2details=Bezwada Extension Railway (BG)|company3=1901|company3details=Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railway (MG)|company4=|company4details= |company5=|company5details= |company6=|company6details= |company7=|company7details= |company8=|company8details= |company9=|company9details= |company10=|company10details= |company11=|company11details= |company12=|company12details= |headquarters=[[Secunderabad]]|workshop= |stations=[[Hyderabad]], [[Wadi]], [[Bezwada]], [[Manmad]]|successor1=1951|successor1details=[[Central Railway]] (IR)|successor2= |successor2details= |successor3= |successor4details= |gauge1=Broad gauge|gauge1details=351 miles (1905)|gauge2=Metre gauge|gauge2details=391 miles (1905)|gauge3= |gauge3details= |gauge4= |gauge4details= |auxillary forces=}} The full style was '''His Exalted Highness , The Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway'''and had its beginnings in a line built privately by the NIzam, to the dismay of the British authorities.  ==== Reference list ==== *Stone, Edward Herbert, ''The Nizam’s State Railway. Illustrated by Photographs'' (London: 1876). [Copy held on open shelves, APAC Reading Room, British Library.] ==== Sources ==== *[http://irfca.org/faq/faq-hist.html "Chronological History of Railways in India"] (''The IRFCA Server'' : accessed 01 December 2008). *[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Hyderabad,_India_(State) "Hyderabad, India (State)"] (''LoveToKnow Classic Encyclopedia'' : accessed 01 December 2008). *[http://irfca.org/docs/history/hyderabad.html "Hyderabad - Imperial Gazetteer of India"] References extracted from the Imperial Gazetteer (1909) by R Sivaramakrishnan, posted 18 August 2008 (''The IRFCA Server'' : accessed 01 December 2008).
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