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The '''Kathiawar State Railway''' was owned by the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Kathiawar State]] and opened in 1880 between [[Surendranagar ]] and [[Bhavnagar, also known as the '''Surendranagar-Bhavnagar Railway'''. ]]<ref>[http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history2.html IRFCA "Chronology of railways in India, Part 2 (1870 - 1899) – " 'Year 1880"']; Retrieved 12 Dec 20157 Feb 2016</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavnagar_State_Railway Wikipedia ", also known as the '''Surendranagar-Bhavnagar State Railway"]; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015</ref>'''.
<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surendranagar-Bhavnagar_line Wikipedia Surendranagar-Bhavnagar line"]; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015</ref>
The railway was later worked by the [[Bhavnagar State Railway]] which was a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) network.
<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavnagar_State_Railway Wikipedia "Bhavnagar State Railway"]; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015</ref>. It is assumed therefore that the Kathiawar State Railway was a MG line.
The [[Bhavnagar State Railway]] and the Kathiawar State Railway merged into [[Saurashtra Railway]] in April, 1948
