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THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE OF INDIA I,
Date of
commencement Name Class RODte
of operations
Miles
,1873 Gaekwar's Baroda State
Railway II 341'17
.1874 Nizam I 1014·90
le80 Bhavnagar State II 283'99
1881 Gondal II 189·67
1882 Jodhpur I 866·82
il888 Junagad II 148'10
1889 Porbandar III 41·29
1891 Bikaner II 619'15
1895 Udaipur-Chitorgarh III 67·30
;1897 J amnagar-Dwarka II 157·35
1899 Gwalior Light III 253'20
1899 Mysor~ II 285'46
1905 Cutch III 36'78
Neither for British India nor for Indian states is there
a uniform system of administration in railways. The
administrative diversity has arisen in no small part from
the very diversity in the methods of financing railway
construction. If· we exclude the •• experimental" lines
of 33 miles at Bombay, 120 miles at Calcutta, and 39
miles at Madras constructed in 1853, 1854 and .1856 respectively,
it is possible to exhibit four or five different
periods of railway construction each with its -characteristic
features of finance. 1
The first period of railway finance
is to he found betwee~ 1859 and 1870 when 5,000 miles
of railway were distributed by the Government of India,
between eight companies on a guarantee basis. The con-
7 Report, vol. I, pp. 90-94.