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The '''Suramangalam-Salem Railway''' was sanctioned for construction by the [[South Indian Railway]] Company (SIR) on behalf of the District Board of Salem in March 1915. The short broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line linking [[Suramangalam]] to [[Salem]] was 4 3.9 miles(7 6.3 Km) in length.
<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n145/mode/2up "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 137]; Retrieved 13 Feb 2016</ref>
<ref>"Indian Railway Mileage 1910-17" Spreadsheet available at
dsal.uchicago.edu/statistics/1910_excel/1910.125.XLS</ref>
This short line converted into mixed gauge by addition of a MG rail in 1931, the MG line being part of the ‘[[Salem-Vriddhachalam Railway]]’<ref name=Hist196>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/30/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-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’ pages 196-197, pdf 239-240]; Retrieved 2 Oct 2020</ref>
==Further Information==
See '''[[South Indian Railway]]'''
<br>and '''[[South_Indian_Railway_-_Lines_Owned_and_Worked|SIR Lines Owned and Worked]]'''
== References ==
