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[[File: Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway.png|thumb| Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway]]
Date added to Map title Progress in Line Openings added
[[File: Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway.png|right|400px| Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Light Railway, 1931 Map]]
'''Kulasekharapatnam Tissianvillai Light Railway''',
<br>later known as the '''Kulasekharapatnam Light Railway'''
<br>later to become the '''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 ‘Statistics of Working’ show the year-by-year financial results from 1915-16 through to 1936-37 <ref name=Hist1937>[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’ page 293 pdf 336]; Retrieved 30 Jul 2020</ref>.
==Progress in Line Openings==
The record gives the following <ref name=Hist1937/>:-
{|
| Kulasekharapatnam to Tissianvillai ...
|Nov 1915 .
|10.5 miles
|-
| Kulasekharapatnam Sugar factory to Tiruchendur
|Aug 1922
|6.25 miles
|-
| Extension at Tiruchendur to the station yard of Tiruchendur-Tissianvilai Railway
|Mar 1929
|1.00 miles
|-
| Kulasekharapatnam Port to Manapad closed jun 1932
|Oct 1929
|0.75 miles
|-
|'''Total Mileage'''
|. .
|'''30.00 miles'''
|}
== Classification ==
