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Trivellore Light Railway

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The '''Trivellore Light Railway''' was a private, unassisted railway owned and worked by T. Namberumal Chetty and Sons. , Madras. The line was a 2ft/610mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) with a length of 2 miles(3km)<ref>Report by the Railway Board on Indian Railways for 1936-37</ref> The Company was a major construction business and had acquired the smalll private railway companyoperated from Trivellore Station to Trivellore Temple, which ran a feeder line 2.12 miles(3.4km) with an extension to the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]]Bazaar End, 0.25 miles(M&SMR0.4km) from [[Trivellore]] Station.<refname=Hist1937>[https://sriramvia801605.us.wordpressarchive.comorg/201230/04items/11in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/thatikonda2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-namberumalConstructed-chettyAnd-masterIn-builder/ "Namberumal Chetty"Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 309 pdf 343]; Retrieved 14 Dec 201530 Jul 2020</ref>.
This twoThe ‘Statistics of Working’ show the year-by-mile tramway year financial results from Trivellore station 1921-22 through to the local temple was authorised in 1904 and appears to have operated until 1939 with two (possibly three) locomotives but no further information is available1936-37 <ref name=Hughes>“Indian Narrow Gauge Locomotives 1863-1940” by Hugh Hughes, published by ‘The Continental Railway Circle’ Paragraph 38 Page 82<Hist1937/ref>
== Classification ==
[[Indian Railway Classification]] of 1926 - Class III railway system.
 
==History==
''Only the following information has been found concerning this railway'':-
*The construction of this line, in the district of Chingleput in the Madras Presidency , under the provision of the Indian Tramways Act, 1886, was authorised on 6 Sep 1904. The approval allowed for the construction, maintenance and use for public traffic of the ‘Vendalur and Trivellore Tramway’<ref name=Hist1937/>.
*''The date of acquisition of the line is not known ''
*The Company was a major construction business and had acquired the small private railway company, which ran a feeder line to the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]](M&SMR) from Trivellore Station<ref>[https://sriramv.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/thatikonda-namberumal-chetty-master-builder/ "Namberumal Chetty"]; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015</ref>.
*The line was not included in the list of Railways in India until 17 Sep 1921<ref name=Hist1937/>.
*This two-mile tramway from Trivellore station to the local temple was authorised in 1904 and appears to have operated until 1939 with two (possibly three) locomotives but no further information is available<ref name=Hughes>“Indian Narrow Gauge Locomotives 1863-1940” by Hugh Hughes, published by ‘The Continental Railway Circle’ Paragraph 38 Page 82</ref>
== References ==
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Private Railways]]
[[Category:Tramways]]
[[Category:Narrow Gauge (NG) Railways]]
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