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1918 Admin Report details checked/added/corrected
The '''[[Gondal-Porbandar Railway]]''' was formed in 1911 as the nucleus of a new metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) system, with the [[Gondal Railway|Gondal State Railway]](GSR) working jointly with the [[Porbandar State Railway]](PSR) thus forming the Gondal-Porbandar Railway. The first section opened in 1913 and completed to Dhari in 1915, a length of 37 miles(52km).The line was initially worked by the [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway]](BGJPR). <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 181]; Retrieved 18 Dec 2015</ref>
In 1919, GSR took over the sole working of the PSR and the name reverted to the '''Gondal State Railway'''(GSR)
In 1948, GSR became a part of [[Saurashtra Railway]].
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