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Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway info, link and map added
'''Kulasekharapatnam Tissianvillai Light Railway''', <br>later known as the ''' Kulasekharapatnam Light Railway'''<br>later to become the '''Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway'''
[[File: Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway.png|thumb| Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway]]
==History==
The '''Kulasekharapatnam Tissianvillai Light Railway''' was established in 1914 linking the sugar growing area of [[Tissianvillai]] (modern day Tisaiyanvilai) to [[Kulasekharapatnam]] at the extreme end southern tip of India.
The line later was extended to [[Tiruchendur]], a distance of 27 miles(43km) <ref name=hindu>[http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/madras-miscellany-indias-first-railway-line/article6668150.ece The Hindu Newspaper “Madras Miscellany” ]; Retrieved 26 Oct 2016</ref> with a short branch to Udangudi and there was a regular daily service for public use as indicated in Bradshaw's Guide Timetable for 1933 <ref>[http://www.irfca.org/gallery/Heritage/timetables/Bradshaw_1933/South_India_NG_Timetables_11.jpg.html IRFCA "Bradshaw 1933 Timetable"; reproduced by Chris Pietruski, IRFCA ''Indian Railways Fan Club'']; Retrieved; 26 Oct 2016</ref>.
In 1926 the following is recorded "Messers. Parry and Company’s light Railway runs from [[Tiruchendur]] to [[Tissianvilai]] touching the port of [[Kulasekarapatnam]], which has shipping connection with Colombo and Tuticorin" <ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=SzWvq8EYBwUC&pg=PA133&hl=fr&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false "llustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway – 1926"; page 133]; Retrieved 19 Dec 2017</ref>.
This line can be seen in yellow as a NG line on the 1931 Railway Map ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India,’ <ref> [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1931/fullscreen.html?object=33 Map ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India,’ v. 26, Atlas 1931 edition, Railways & Inland Navigation, p. 27.
The line had been in decline since 1928 when the sugar factory at Kulasekharapatnam closed <ref name=TN39/>
