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[[File:Jamnagar State Railway.png|thumb|Jamnagar State Railway]]Construction commenced in 1893 with Lord Harris ++''(see footnote)'', the Governor of the Presidency of Bombay, turning the first sod in the construction of the Rajkot to Navanagar line <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/pts_historyofkathiaw_3721-1226#page/290/mode/1up “The History of Kathiwad” by Capt H Wilberforce-Bell; published by William Heinmann, London, 1916; page 252 ]; Retrieved 31 Jul 2017</ref>.

The railway from +Note: [[Jamnager]Jamnagar] to [[Rajkot]] in the Kathiawar peninsular, opened in 1897 with an extension for goods traffic to Bedi Bunder Portpreviously Navanagar, 4 miles(6.4km) north of [[Jamnager]] . The line was a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line with a length of 54 miles (87km) and constructed by is the [[Princely states|Princely ]]main town in [[Navanager State]] <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n192/mode/1up "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 184]; Retrieved 31 Jul 2017</ref>.

This line was also called the '''Navanagar State Railway''' after the district around Navanager and connected The railway from [[Rajkot]] to the [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar RailwayJamnagar]]in the Kathiawar peninsular, opened in 1897 with an extension for goods traffic to Bedi Bunder Port, 4 miles(BGJPR6.4km) system at north of [[RajkotJamnagar]]. The line was worked as part a metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) line with a length of 54 miles (87km) and constructed by the [[Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar RailwayPrincely states|Princely ]][[Navanager State]](BGJPR) system until 1911<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n192/mode/1up "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 184]; Retrieved 31 Jul 2017</ref>.

The BGJPR administrative coalition This line was dissolved in 1911 with also called the constituents going their independent ways. The Jamnager '''Navanagar State Railway worked its own railway from Rajkot ''' after the district around Navanager and connected to Jamnager with the [[Junagadh State Bhavnagar-Gondal-Junagad-Porbandar Railway]] taking over the working of its (BGJPR) system from at [[JetslarRajkot]] to [[Veravel]] including its branches. The line was worked as part of the BGJPR)system until 1911.

LaterThe BGJPR administrative coalition was dissolved in 1911 with the constituents going their independent ways. The 'Jamnager State Railway' worked its own railway from [[Rajkot]] to [[Jamnager]]; with the [[Junagadh State Railway]] taking over the working of its system from [[Jetslar]] to [[Veravel]] including its branches. In 1923, when the line was extended westwards to Kuranga and [[Dwarka]] and where the system joined the [[Port OkhaOkhamandal State Railway]] on the Gulf of Cutch, the system was . The two being renamed the '''[[Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]]'''(J&DR) <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamnagar_%26_Dwarka_Railway “Dwarka Railway” ]; Retrieved 31 Jul 2017</ref>, being responsible for the operation and maintainence of the two railways and linking [[Rajkot]] to Port Okha on the Gulf of Cutch,.

See '''[[Jamnagar and Dwarka Railway]]'''<br> and '''[[Kathiawar Peninsula Railway and Tramway Systems]]''' for the timeline and map showing the relationship to other railways in region.