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'''Nizam's Railway'''
[[1870-71_Report_on_Railways#Progress_on_State_lines._Paragraphs_5-10.3B_Pages_3-4| The “1870-71 Annual Report for Indian Railways” refers to the ‘Goolburga to Hyderabad Railway’ ]] with 116 miles(187km) sanctioned as a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) railway.
<br>The Report states “The railway from Goolburga, on the Great India Peninsula, to Hyderabad, which is to be constructed with funds provided by the Nizam, has been laid out and commenced. It will be about 116 miles in length, and will go by Secunderabad and Trimulgherry. At the particular desire of the Nizam this line will be constructed on the broad gauge”<ref>[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/18145 Online pdf version ‘Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics’ “Administration Report on the Railways in India for 1870-71”, para 10, page/pdf 4 ]; Retrieved 26 June 2020</ref>.
The '''Nizam's Railway''' opened 1874 as a privately owned railway; it had its beginnings in a line built privately by the Nizam, to the dismay of the British authorities. The [[Wadi-Secunderbad Railway]] broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line, from [[Wadi]] Junction to [[Secunderabad]], opened 1874, 115 miles(185km) <ref name=Admin_p.98>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n107/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 98 (pdf107)]; Retrieved 1 Dec 2016</ref>.
