Indian Railway’s Western Railway zone (WR) has decided to scrap 11 narrow gauge routes and branch lines in Gujarat. One of these is the 107-year-old Billimora-Waghai line.
Billimora-Waghai line
- The line connects Billimora in Navsari district with Waghai in Dang district.
- The line used to run by the Gaekwad Baroda State Railway (GBSR). But scraping of this line has not gone down well with political leaders which have started a campaign against it.
- The line was started by rulers of the Gaekwad dynasty of the princely state of Baroda in 1913.
- The 63-km Billimora-Waghai and the 19-km Choranda-Moti Karal routes are among those five routes the Indian Railways had proposed to be preserved as “industrial heritage” in 2018.
(Indian Express)
