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The [[Sind Light Railway Co Ltd|Sind Light Railway]] was a privately owned railway opened in 1909 linking [[Mirpurkhas]] to [[Jhudo]].
The Sind Light Railway Company Ltd was founded in Bombay in 1908 by a Bombay businessman Sir Montague de Pomeroy Webb.
<ref>John F. Riddick [https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=0313322805 Google Books "The History of British India: A Chronology" by John F. Riddick, 2006 page 324] google books ; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015</ref>
[[Mirpurkhas]] became a railway junction in the early 20th century. Until 1909 there was only a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line running through the district, from [[Hyderabad]] to [[Marwar]] Junction. In 1909, the '''Sind Light Railway Co Ltd''' opened a line from [[Mirpurkhas]] to [[Jhudo]].
