Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway

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Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway
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Line of route
Wadi to Bezwada
Hyderabad to Manmad
Gauge / mileage
Broad gauge 330 miles (1905)
Timeline
1870 Private railway worked by company
1879 (Indian) state railway worked by company
1930 (Indian) state railway worked by (Indian) state
Key locations
Presidency Madras
Stations Bezwada, Manmad, Warangal
System agency
Worked by
Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway
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Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway
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System timeline
1883 Management company formed to work system
1930 Working taken on by state
Constituent companies / lines
1874 Wadi-Secunderabad Railway (BG)
1889 Bezwada Extension Railway (BG)
1901 Hyderabad-Godavari Valley Railway (MG)
Key locations
Headquarters Secunderabad
Workshops
Major Stations Aurangabad, Chanda, Hyderabad, Medak, Nander, Nizamabad, Parbhani, Secunderabad, Wadi
Successor system / organisation
1950 Nationalisation
1951 Central Railway (IR)
System mileage
Broad gauge 351 miles (1905)
688 miles (1943)
Metre gauge 391 miles (1905)
672 miles (1943)
Associated auxiliary force
n/a
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The full style of the system was His Exalted Highness, The Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway (NGSR) which had its beginnings in a line built privately by the NIzam, to the dismay of the British authorities.


History

The earliest sections, operating as Nizam’s Railway, were commenced during the 1870s, variously financed, constructed and operated.

In 1883, a management company, Nizam's Guaranteed Railway, was formed to gradually take over these lines, under the provision of a guarantee from the Government of HEH the Nizam of Hyderabad State.

The State of Hyderabad assumed operational control of the system in 1930, renaming the railway Nizam's State Railway.

In 1950, the NGSR was nationalised and in 1951 became part of Central Railway, a zone of Indian Railways.

Nizam’s Railway Lines (up to 1883)

Nizam’s Guaranteed Railway Lines (1883-1930)

Nizam’s State Lines (after 1930)

Reference list

  • Stone, Edward Herbert, The Nizam’s State Railway. Illustrated by Photographs (London: 1876). [Copy held on open shelves, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library.]


Sources