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This railway is known The [[India Office Records]](IOR), see below, show that the Western Rajputana State Railway existed in 1874-75 and certainly up to have existed1878-79.
It There is stated a brief reference in a diary of that time referring to the title:-town of [[Palanpur]] ''Bombay Presidency, 1880-88<ref>[https://books.google. Annual Reports on the Working of the Police on the Bombay, Baroda and Central Indian fr/books?id=0c_gCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT199&lpg=PT199&dq=Western+Rajputana+State+Railway, &source=bl&ots=8Zy428_2qv&sig=7oLBCizEEKz6jg2Q7b4eh46QE0M&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimo5rQkqzKAhVG6RQKHV4hCPYQ6AEIWDAI#v=onepage&q=Western%20Rajputana%20State%20Railway%2C&f=false Google Books “Joan in India” by Suzanne Falkiner; Chapter 10 “Portrait of a Princely State in the '''Nineteenth Century”]; Retrieved 15 Apr 2016</ref>quote ‘The Western Rajputana State Railway''', completed in 1879, passed some little distance away, with a metalled (or broken stone) running between the Rajputana-Malawa Railway town and the Southern Maratha Railway for 1879-1887, Bombay''station.’
Reference - India's Railway History: A Research Handbook'No other information has been found and examination of the IOR records should provide more information. By John Hurd II, Ian J. Kerr[https://books.google.co.uk/books]''
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'''Western Rajputana State Railway'''
It is certain seems most likely that the Western Rajputana State Railway was absorbed into amalgamated Into the '''[[Rajputana-Malwa State Railway]]'''(RMSR) soon after the creation of RMSR which was created in 1881-82, joining under single management, existing State Railways:-*[[Rajputana State Railway]] *[[Holkar State Railway]]*[[Scindia-Neemuch Railway]] *[[Neemuch Nasirabad State Railway]] All these railways were worked by '''[[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]]'''(BB&CIR) State Railways. In 1900 the RMSR was merged into the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR), becoming the latter's Metre Gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) section; known as Ratlam Division of BB&CIR. ==Records==An on-line search of the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) records held at the [[British Library]] relating to this railway <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 15 Apr 2016</ref>gives the following:-*V/24/3588; “India. Public Works Department: Annual progress report of the Western Rajputana State Railway, 1874/75” *R/V/24/3590; "Public Works Department: Railways" which includes "Annual progress report of the Western Rajputana State Railway, 1878/79” ''These records have not been examined.'' == References ==<references />
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