Nizam's Railway

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Nizam's Railway

The “1870-71 Annual Report for Indian Railways” refers to the ‘Goolburga to Hyderabad Railway’ with 116 miles(187km) sanctioned as a broad gauge(BG) railway.
The Report states “The railway from Goolburga, on the Great India Peninsula, to Hyderabad, which is to be constructed with funds provided by the Nizam, has been laid out and commenced. It will be about 116 miles in length, and will go by Secunderabad and Trimulgherry. At the particular desire of the Nizam this line will be constructed on the broad gauge”[1].

Hyderabad State Railway- see separate page was the description given in 1871-72 to the original system of railways to be constructed with funds provided by the Nizam [2].

The Nizam's Railway opened 1874 as a privately owned railway; it had its beginnings in a line built privately by the Nizam, to the dismay of the British authorities. The ‘Wadi-Secunderbad Railway’ broad gauge(BG) line, from Wadi Junction to Secunderabad, opened 1874, 115 miles(185km) [3].

The line was worked by ‘Great Indian Peninsula Railway’(GIPR) until the end of 1878 with its own rolling stock.

From January 1879 to 31st December 1884 it was worked by the State Railway agency of the Government of India(GoI). Howard William Warden from the Public Works Department - State Railways was appointed Manager of Nizam's Railway in 1883 [4].

In 1883, a management company, Nizam's Guaranteed Railway Company, was formed to gradually take over this line and others, under the provision of a guarantee from the Government of HEH the Nizam of the Princely Hyderabad State.

From January 1885 the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway was formed.

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Further Informaétion

See Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway