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Udaipur-Chitor Railway

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'''Udaipur-Chitor Railway''' also known as '''Udaipur-Chitorgarh Railway''' and the '''Oodeypore-Chitor Railway'''
The railway was a Metre Gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line, sponsored by the [[Mewar]] Durbar (Udaipur State), to link [[Udaipur]] to [[Chitor]]and worked by the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) up to 31 December 1897.With effect from 1st January 1908 the maintenance and working was taken over by the Mewar Durbar.<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 204]; Retrieved 21 Dec 2015</ref>
[[Chitor]] was the connection to the [[Rajputana-Malwa Railway]](RMR), which, in 1900, merged into the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR)}
During the Second World War, c.1943 the line became known as the '''Mewar State Railway'''.
== References ==<references />
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Indian States Railways]]
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