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{{Infobox rail
|railroad_name = South Indian Railway Company
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|end_year = {{End date|df=yes|1951|4|13}}<br>({{Age in years, months and days|1874|7|1|1951|4|14}})
|predecessor_line = Great Southern Railway of India<br>Carnatic Railway
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|hq_city = York Street, [[Westminster]], [[London]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|UKGBI]] ({{abbr|R. O.|Registered Office}})<br> [[Trichinopoly]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British Raj]] (Operations)
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The '''South Indian Railway Company''' operated a number of {{TrackGauge|1m|lk=on}} gauge lines{{sfn|South Indian Railway Company|2015|loc=Chapter 1 }} in [[South India]] from 1874 to 1951.

== History ==
The Great Southern of India Railway Company was established with its headquarters in [[England]] in 1853. The Carnatic Railway Company was founded in 1869.<ref name="herepathsjournalp3">{{cite journal|journal=Herepath's Railway and Commercial Journal|page=3|title=Indian Tramway Limited|date=1 January 1870|volume=32|issue=1595}}</ref> The two companies merged in 1874 to form the South Indian Railway Company.<ref name="reportp260">{{cite book|title=Report on the Administration of the Madras Presidency During the Year 1875-76|page=260|publisher=Government Press|year=1877}}</ref> The new firm was registered in [[London]] in 1890 with [[Trichinopoly]] as its headquarters. In 1891, the Pondicherry Railway Company (incorporated in 1845<ref name="herepathsjournalp3" />) merged with the South Indian Railway Company. The company moved its headquarters later to, [[Chennai Central]]. The company operated a suburban electric train service for Madras city from May 1931 onwards. The South Indian Railway Company was nationalized in 1944. On 1 April 1951, the South Indian Railway Company, the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company]] and the [[Mysore State Railway|Mysore Railway Company]] were merged to form the [[Southern Railway Zone (India)|Southern Railway zone]] of the [[Indian Railways]].
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File: Opening of the South Indian Railway between Tuticorin and Madura Madras Presidency Natives waiting to see the Prince an engraving, 1876.jpg|Opening of the [[South Indian Railway]] between [[Tuticorin]] and [[Madurai|Madura]] by [[Madras Presidency]]. "Natives waiting to see the Prince in 1876"
File: Railway Station South India.jpg|An up-country railway station
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== Conversion to broad gauge ==

The railway lines were converted to {{RailGauge|1676mm|lk=on}} [[broad gauge]] in the 1990s{{cn|date=January 2018}}.

== See also ==
* [[1928 South Indian Railway Strike]]
* [[Southern Railway zone]]

== References ==
===Notes===
{{reflist}}

===Bibliography===
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite book |last1=South Indian Railway Company |title=Illustrated guide to the South Indian Railway (Incorporated in England): including the Tanjore District Board, Pondicherry, Peralam-Karaikkal, Travancore State, Cochin State, Coimbatore District Board, Tinnevelly-Tiruchendur, and the Nilgiri Railways. |date=2004 |orig-date=1st pub. (1926) Madras: Offices of the SIRC |publisher=Asian Educational Services |location=New Delhi |isbn=8120618890}}
*{{cite book |author1=South Indian Railway Company |title=The Illustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MOhiCgAAQBAJ |date=2015 |orig-year=1st pub. (1900) Madras: Higginbotham & Co |publisher=Amberley Publishing |location=Stroud, Gloucestershire, England |isbn=9781445650814}}
*{{cite book |last1=Subramhanyan |first1=S |title=Marvels of the South Indian Railway: 1859 - 1951 |url=https://www.railenthusiastindia.org.in/portal/marvels-south-indian-railway-1859-1951 |date=2010 |publisher=Railway Heritage Centre, Southern Railway, Tiruchchirappally Division |location=Tiruchchirappalli |isbn=9788192146607}}
{{refend}}

== External links ==
{{Railways in Southern India}}

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[[Category: Transport in Madurai]]
[[Category: Transport in Chennai]]
[[Category: Rail transport in Tiruchirappalli]]
[[Category: Defunct railway companies of India]]
[[Category: Southern Railway Zone]]
[[Category: Rail transport in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category: Railway companies established in 1874]]
[[Category: Railway companies disestablished in 1951]]
[[Category:1874 establishments in British India]]
[[Category:1951 disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 1874]]

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