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Railway company that operated in southern India
The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway was a railway company that operated in southern
India. It was founded on 1 January 1908 by merging the
Madras Railway and the
Southern Mahratta Railway.
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Initially, its headquarters was at
Royapuram in
Madras but was later shifted to a newly constructed building at
Egmore, which was inaugurated on 11 December 1922. On 1 April 1944, its management was taken over directly by the
Government of India.
[3] On 14 April 1951, the Madras and South Mahratta Railway, the
South Indian Railway and the
Mysore State Railway were merged to form the
Southern Railway, one of the 16 zones of the
Indian Railways.
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Rolling stock
In 1936 the company owned 663 locomotives, 1561 coaches and 15.092 goods wagons.
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Classification
It was labeled as a Class I railway according to
Indian Railway Classification System of 1926.
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