Shivrajpur Light Railway
The Shivrajpur Light Railway
The 1916 report [1] states :- ‘The Shivrapur-Pani extension was opened for traffic on the 15th November 1916, was constructed to afford railway communication to the Manganese Mines at Pani and open out a tract of inaccessible country in the Barya and Chota Udaipur States... the construction work has been carried out by the Guzerat Railway Company who will also undertake its working’
The Shivrajpur Light Railway was in 1917 purchased by the Guzerat Railway Company [2] and created the Champaner-Shivrajpur- Pani Light Railway to form a group of four lines operated by the Guzerat Railway Company .
The management of the Guzerat Railway Company lines was taken over by Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway(BB&CIR) in 1922
Records
Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the Fibis shop. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the India Office Records (IOR) held at the British Library
An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway [2] gives the following: -
- L/F/8/19/1433 “Guzerat Railways Company Limited, Contract in connection with acquisition and extension of the Shivrajpur Light Railway; 1917”
Further Information
References
- ↑ “Railways in India – GOI Administritive Report 1916-17” page 13 Retrieved on 27 Jan 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search; Retrieved Jan 2016