Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway

Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway

Industry	Railways
Founded	1855
Defunct	1951
Headquarters	Bombay, British India
Area served	Bombay Presidency and Rajasthan
Services	Rail transport

Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway train at the National Rail Museum, New Delhi

The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (BB&CI) was a company incorporated in 1855 to undertake the task of constructing a railway line between Bombay and Vadodara in India. BB&CI completed the work in 1864. The first suburban railway in India was started by BB&CI, operating between Virar and Colaba, a railway station in Bombay Backbay in 1867. The main headquarters of the BB&CI Railway was located in Churchgate, Bombay and the headquarters and workshops for the metre gauge tracks and services was located in Ajmer.

Electrification

The Colaba-Borivali section (37.8 km) was electrified on 5 January 1928 on the 1.5 kV DC system. The two tracks between Colaba and Grant Road stations were electrified, while four tracks between Grant Road and Bandra railway stations were electrified. Only two suburban tracks between Bandra and Borivli were electrified in 1928, two main tracks were left for the steam locomotives. In 1933, Colaba railway station and two electrified tracks between Colaba and Churchgate railway stations were dismantled. In 1936, electrification was extended to the two main tracks between Bandra and Borivali railway stations, left earlier and the two main tracks between Borivali and Virar railway stations were also electrified, resulting in completion of the electrification of the Churchgate-Virar section.^[1]

Later developments

In 1949, after independence of India, Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway was merged in to Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway by Government of India.

Around 1910, Bagol initially was the only railway station on proposed Udaipur–Phulad Railway line by Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (BB&CI). Unfortunately due to some Government planning the work of extending the railway line via Bagol was stopped, though the railway building still exists in Bagol which is now under the Forest Department.

On 5 November 1951 the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway was merged with the Saurashtra Railway, Rajputana Railway, Jaipur Railway and Cutch State Railway to give rise to the Western Railway.

1982 film Gandhi

The railway is featured in many travel scenes in the 1982 film which tells the story of the leader of India's independence movement Gandhi played by the actor Ben Kingsley.

Notes

↑ Rao, M.A. (1988). Indian Railways, New Delhi: National Book Trust, pp.150-1

Railways in Western India

National network / trunk lines	New Delhi–Mumbai main line Konkan Railway Howrah–Allahabad–Mumbai line Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line Mumbai–Chennai line Jaipur–Ahmedabad line Ahmedabad–Mumbai Main Line

Branch lines / sections	Mathura–Vadodara Section Ahmedabad–Viramgam section Bhusawal–Kalyan section Gandhidham–Ahmedabad main line Gandhidham–Bhuj section Gandhidham–Kandla Port section Gandhidham–Palanpur section Gandhidham–Samakhiali section Jodhpur–Bathinda line Maliya Miyana–Wankaner section Marwar Junction–Munabao line Mumbai Dadar–Solapur section Nagpur–Bhusawal section Samakhiali–Maliya Miyana section Solapur–Guntakal section Surendranagar–Bhavnagar line Viramgam–Mahesana section Viramgam–Maliya Miyana section Viramgam–Okha line Viramgam–Surendra Nagar section Wankaner–Surendra Nagar section

Suburban lines around Mumbai	Western line Central line Harbour line Trans-Harbour line Nerul-Uran railway (under construction)

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Monorail	Ahmedabad Monorail Line 1 (Mumbai Monorail) Mumbai Monorail Navi Mumbai Monorail Pune Monorail

Defunct lines revived / under revival	Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway Barsi Light Railway

Defunct lines	Salsette-Trombay Railway Bhavnagar Tramway Bhavnagar State Railway Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway West of India Portuguese Railway Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Cutch State Railway

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Railway divisions	Bhusawal Railway Division Pune Railway Division

Railway companies	Central Railway Western Railway West Central Railway Konkan Railway Corporation Great Indian Peninsula Railway Saurashtra Railway Mumbai Port Trust Railway

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Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway

Electrification

Later developments

1982 film Gandhi

See also

Notes