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'''Carwar and Hooblee Railway Survey'''
The 1872 ‘Annual Report on Railways in India’ <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=tytcAAAAQAAJ&printsec=GBS.PP567PP597&pg=GBS.RA13-PA1 PA37 ‘Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons Vol 19, 1872’ “Annual Report on Railways in India for 1871-72; Carwar and Hooblee Railway” Paras 80 and 87, page 37, pdf 597]; Retrieved 9 Apr 2018</ref> lists the ‘Carwar and Hooblee Railway’ as a railway “being constructed by the Government without the intervention of companies”:-
<blockquote> “Carwar and Hooblee Railway, length 144 miles(230km) to Gudduck. Repeated surveys have been made of this line, and the difficulties, while still serious, are less than they were first expected to be, but the question of its construction is still under consideration. The railway reaches the top of the Ghats, at a level of 2,200 feet (670mtr) above the sea by works extending over 24 miles(38km) ... with a continuous incline, 4 miles(6.4km) in length, of 1 in 40 ...”</blockquote>
