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''The actual date line was constructed by the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda and initially worked by the ‘[[Baroda State Railway]]’ from opening in Nov 1922, a length of this line has not been found – it must be between 1919 37 miles(60km) <ref name=Hist1937>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/30/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and 1921''in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 242, pdf 285]; Retrieved 22 Aug 2020</ref>.
19211922: the [[Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway]](GBSR) initially took over the management and operation of the ‘Okhamandal State Railway’.
1937 info added and minor edits
<ref name=vadora>[http://www.historyofvadodara.in/railway-museum-auditorium/ "History of Vadodara/Railway Museum"]; Retrieved 7 Jun 2019</ref>.
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==Later History==
1922: '''[[Kuranga-Okha Railway]]''' was the name given to the railway on the opening of the [[Okha Port Trust Railway]] <ref name=vadora/> .
1923 : With effect from Apr 1923 these three connected lines:- the operation and maintenance of the railway was passed to ‘[[Jamnagar State Railway]]’, the ‘[[Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]]‘ and the ‘[[Okhamandal State Railway]]’ were amalgamated to form the ‘Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway System’(JDRJ&DR) <ref name=vadoraHist1937/>.
1931: The 1931 Map <ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.html?object=31 ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India,’ v. 26, Atlas 1931 edition, Railways & Inland Navigation, p. 24. ]; Retrieved 7 Jun 2019</ref> shows the JDR as working the line from Jamnagar via Kuranga and to Okha Port.
1943: The 1943 Record describes this railway as the '''Kuranga-Adatra Railway'''<ref name=Econ/>
1948: '[[Saurashtra Railway]] ' came into being in April, 1948 with the amalgamation of a number of state railways which included the ‘Okhamandal Railway’ and the ‘[[Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurashtra_Railway Wikipedia "Saurashtra Railway""]; Retrieved 7 Jun 2019</ref>.
==Further Information==
See '''[[Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]] '''
== References ==
