Porbandar State Railway Explained

Railroad Name:	Porbandar State Railway
Locale:	Gujarat
Start Year:	1888
End Year:	1948
Successor Line:	Saurashtra Railway
Hq City:	Porbandar

Porbandar State Railway was a metre gauge in the Porbandar State in Gujarat during the 19th century.

History

The Porbandar State Railway was owned by the State of Porbandar, which was then ruled by Vikramatji Khimojiraj. Later railways were further developed by Bhavsinhji Madhavsinhji and Natwarsinhji Bhavsinhji under their rules. It worked initially with Bhavnagar–Gondal–Junagad–Porbandar Railway until 1911. It was opened to traffic in 1888. Later, from 1919, it worked with Gondal Railway. The Porbandar rail line was extended to Jamjodhpur in 1922, at which time the line was 42 miles long. After that it merged with Saurashtra Railway in April 1948.^[1]

Classification

It was labeled as a Class III railway according to Indian Railway Classification System of 1926.^{[2] [3]}

Conversion to broad gauge

The railway lines were converted to broad gauge in 2011.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Porbandar railway.
2. Web site: Indian Railway Classification . 10 November 2022. en.
3. Book: World Survey of Foreign Railways . 1936 . Transportation Division, Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Washington D.C.. English . 223–226d.