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Sind Light Railway Co Ltd

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The [['''Sind Light Railway Co Ltd|Sind Light Railway]] ''' was a privately owned railway opened in 1909 linking [[Mirpurkhas| Mirpurkhas(Mirpur Khas)]] south-eastwards to [[Jhudo]].
<blockquote>''Note - not to be confused with the [[Sind Railway]] Company, formed in 1854, to construct a line from Karachi to Indus; or its successor the [[Sind, Punjab and Delhi Railway]].''</blockquote> The "Sind Light Railway Company Ltd " was founded in Bombay in 1908 by a Bombay businessman Sir Montague de Pomeroy Webb.
<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=0313322805 Google Books "The History of British India: A Chronology" by John F. Riddick, 2006 page 324]; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015</ref>
[[Mirpurkhas| Mirpurkhas(Mirpur Khas)]] became a railway junction in the early 20th century. Until 1909 there was only a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) [[Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway]](JBR),line running through the district, from [[Hyderabad]] eastward to [[Marwar]] Barmer and onward to Luni Junction.  In 1909, the '''"Sind Light Railway Co Ltd''' " opened a line from Jamrao Junction near [[Mirpurkhas]] to [[Jhudo]], a length of 80 miles(81km); it became the '''[[Mirpur Khas-Jhudo Railway]]''' as a ([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) branch of the [[Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway]](JBR) under a working agreement<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n197/mode/2up "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 189]; Retrieved 9 Feb 2016</ref>.
==Related Articles==
[[Thar and Parkar District]]
 
==Further Information==
See '''[[Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway]]'''
 
and '''[[Mirpur Khas-Jhudo Railway]]'''
== References ==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Private Railways]]
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