Mysore–Bangalore line (officially Mysuru–Bengaluru line) is a fully electrified double line from to .

Background

The line extends from to falling mostly under

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and a few stretches under

Mysore railway division Mysuru railway division is one of the three railway divisions under South Western Railway zone of Indian Railways. This railway division was formed on 5 November 1951 and its headquarter is located at Mysuru in the state of Karnataka in India. ...

within the limits of

South Western Railway zone The South Western Railway (SWR) is one of the 19 railway zones in India, headquartered at Hubballi in Karnataka State. SWR was created from carving out the routes from Southern Railways, South Central Railways and Central Railways in 2003. H ...

at .

Construction

Since the rail network in

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was entirely private affairs. The erstwhile

Kingdom of Mysore The Kingdom of Mysore was a realm in South India, southern India, traditionally believed to have been founded in 1399 in the vicinity of the modern city of Mysore. From 1799 until 1950, it was a princely state, until 1947 in a subsidiary allia ...

established

Mysore State Railway Mysore State Railway (MSR) was a railway which operated in Mysore state, India. MSR became a part of Southern Railway on 14 April 1951. History In 1879, the Madras Railway Company Constructed a railway line from Madras Royapuram to Bangalor ...

for improving rail connectivity, right after the commissioning of Madras Royapuram–Bangalore City railway line in 1879. Though managing

was an expensive affair,

Chamarajendra Wadiyar X Chamarajendra Wadiyar X (22 February 1863 – 28 December 1894) was the twenty-third Maharaja of Mysore between 1868 and 1894. Adoption and accession Chamarajendra Wadiyar X was born in the old palace in Mysore on 22 February 1863, as the thir ...

decided to lay a new rail from

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

in 1870, and shelved the project soon. Again he dusted the project and initiated the construction in 1877–1878. The stretch between Bangalore–Channapatna was completed on 1 February 1881, the Channapatna–Mandya stretch on 20 March 1881 and the final Mandya–Mysore stretch was completed and the entire stretch thrown open to traffic on 25 February 1882. The line currently has a maximum operating speed of . The project to convert the Bangalore–Mysore metre gauge to broad gauge is approved in 1979–80.

Development

Sanctioned in 2009–2010, the railways took up the state's demand for doubling as well

electrification Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and, in many contexts, the introduction of such power by changing over from an earlier power source. The broad meaning of the term, such as in the history of technology, economic histor ...

at an estimated cost of which was later revised to and finally escalated to . Land acquisition of about , especially near Mandya alone have been done as part of double line and improving stations between Ramanagaram and . The electrification of the line had been completed and was inaugurated by

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on 20 February 2018.

References

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