Rajputana-Malwa Railway

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The Rajputana-Malwa Railway (known earlier as the Rajputana State Railway) was a metre gauge railway line which ran from Delhi to Ahmedabad. It was opened on August 18, 1876. The Railway was renamed as Rajputana-Malwa Railway when a new line from Ajmer to Khandwa was added to it. In 1885, Jodhpur was connected to this network from Marwar Junction with meter gauge track and later became part of the Jodhpur Bikaner Railway. The line from Ajmer to Chittor is still metre gauge.

The F-734, the first locomotive built in India, was built by the Ajmer workshop of the Rajputana Malwa Railway in 1895. This locomotive with outside connecting and side rods was used on Rajputana Malwa, Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway systems.

The Rajputana-Malwa railway was absorbed by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (B.B.C.I.) in 1885