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Yelahaka-Bangarpet Railway
The Yelahaka-Bangarpet Railway , previoiusly named the Yelahaka-Bowringpet Section is the description of a section of 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) railway owned by the Durbar for Kolar and Mysore District Board and operated by ‘Mysore State Railway’(MSR) [1]
History
The ‘Kolar District Railway’, a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) line from Bowringpet (later named Bangarapet) to Chik-Ballapur (later named Chikkaballapura), a length of 64 miles(102km) . The line opened from 1913 and completed by 1916.
The ‘Chikballapur-Bangalore City Railway , 38 miles(61km), NG connected to the ‘Kolar District Railway’ at Chik-Ballapur , the line fully opened by 1918
Thus by 1918 Bowringpet was connected fully by NG railways through to Bangalore, a total of 102 miles(164km).
The section from Yelahaka to Bangalore was subsequently dismantled.[1] leaving the line with the description Yelahaka-Bangarpet Railway, worked as part of the ‘Mysore State Railway’(MSR).
The date of this part closure has not been determined, it was certainly after 1937 [2] where is was noted that this section had been converted to mixed gauge 2ft 6 in NG and metre gauge(MG) with running rights given to the ‘Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway’(M&SMR). It can be assumed this section, once closed was operating on MG by the M&SMR.
Further Information
See Mysore State Railway
and Kolar District Railway
and Chikballapur-Bangalore City Railway
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 "Steam in History (India)"/ Yelahaka-Bangarpet Line by R R Bhandari. Reproduced by IRFCA Indian Railways Fan Club; Retrieved 14 Feb 2016
- ↑ 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 250, pdf 293 ; Retrieved 14 Oct 2020