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|timeline1details= First section openedas the <br> '''[[Powayan Steam Tramway Company|Powayan Steam Tramway]]'''

|timeline2details= Line Tramway fully opened to traffic

|timeline3details= Line further extended to Mailani

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|system1date=1890|system1details= Owned and operated by <br> '''[[Rohilkund and Kumaon RailwayPowayan Steam Tramway Company]]'''|system2date= 19431900|system2details= [[Oudh Rohilkund and Tirhut Kumaon Railway]]|system3date=|system3details=

[[File:Powayan Light Railway Map.png|thumb| Powayan Light Railway ]]The '''Powayan Light Railway''' was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway.<br>The '''Powayan Steam Tramway Company''' was the owner of the railway and ‘Steam Tramway’ was the first description. <br>In some references also described as the '''Shahjahanpur-Mailani Tramway'''.  ''Note on spelling''*[[Pawayan]] is the spelling given in the [[Imperial Gazetteer of India]] <ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_087.gif ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India’ v. 20, p. 81.]; Retrieved 3 Sept 2016</ref> which we take as the definitive spelling of the town.*'Powayan Steam Tramway' is the spelling of the Company in all documents and records, sometimes described which later is recorded as a tramwaythe 'Powayan Light Railway'.  ==History==*The section from [[Shahjahanpur]] to [[PowayanPawayan]]''(see Note)'', a length of 17 miles(27km) opened in 1890<ref name=Powayan>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n210/mode/2up "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 202]; Retrieved 26 Jan 2016</ref>. The line was constructed by the ‘Powayan Steam Tramway Company ‘and was owned by Carew & Company of Calcutta , who also managed forest land in the marshy jungle foot-hills of the Himalayas. [[Eric Cambell Geddes]], with his railroad and logging experience, was appointed Manager of the estate. As an aid to further jungle clearance he extended the existing light railway and became Manager of the ‘Powayan Steam Tramway’ <ref name=geddes>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MUW8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Powayan +Steam +Tramway Company &source=bl&ots=GvJ5wPT_Ds&sig=c4nDCnAvrm_M3-5Jw6yqaWI6Ggc&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWiYvo7_LOAhXB2RoKHeyOBLgQ6AEINjAE#v=onepage&q=Powayan%20Steam%20Tramway&f=false Google Books “Sir Eric Geddes: Business and Government in War and Peace” by Keith Grieves, 1989, page 3]; Retrieved 3 Sept 2016</ref>.*In 1899 [[Eric Cambell Geddes|Eric Geddes]] joined the ‘[[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]]’(R&KR) when it assumed control of the extended line <ref name=geddes/> and the working and maintenance was fully taken over by the R&KR in December 1900 <ref name=Powayan/>. In 1901 he became Traffic Superintendent of R&KR which then included the renamed ‘[[Powayan Light Railway]]’ and returned to Britain in 1903 <ref name=geddes/>.* Following the taking over by the ‘[[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]]’(R&KR) in December 1900the tramway was renamed ‘Powayan Light Railway’. *The line was extended to reach [[Mailani]], a further 21 miles(34km) in 1904<ref name=Powayan/>. The 1918 Administration Report records that the ‘Powayan Light Railway’ was being managed and operated by the ‘[[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]]’(R&KR) between [[Shahjahanpur]] and [[Mailani]],a length of 38.86 miles (62.2km) <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n210/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 202, pdf page 210 Classified under R&KR]; Retrieved 3 Sept 2016</ref> It is reported that ‘Powayan Light Railway’ “from Shahjahanpur via Powayan to Mailani, which was constructed by a subsidised company and worked as part of the R&KR System since 17 Dec 1900, was dismantled during WW1 and acquired by the State in 1920-21” <ref>[https://ia801009ia801605.us.archive.org/830/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystemin.ernet.dli.2015.36650/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf " Administration Report on the download of ‘History Of Indian Railways , constructed and in India – corrected up to 31st progress’, 31 March 1918"; Superintendent 1937 by ‘The Government of Government Printing, Calcutta; India - Railway Department’ page 202190 pdf 231]; Retrieved 20 12 Dec 20152020</ref> The line is not showing on the 1931 ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India’ Map<ref>[httphttps://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteergaz_atlas_1931/pagerfullscreen.html?objectidobject=DS405.1.I34_V22_212.gif Imperial 32 ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India 1908" v. 22, p. 206.India’ 1931 Railway Map]; Retrieved 24 Dec 20153 Jul 2020</ref>.

There are no staff records in the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]] An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway <ref>[http://wwwsearcharchives.bl.uk/cataloguesprimo_library/libweb/indiaofficeselectaction/PhotoShowDescssearch.aspdo?CollIDvid=2522IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved Jan 2016</ref> gives 5 references. The most important being:-*'''L/F/8/16/1166''' “Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway Company Limited, Agreement for capital expenditure on the Powayan Steam Tramway and acquisition of interests in the Powayan Steam Tramway Limited; 1906" *'''L/F/8/17/1263''' “Powayan Steam Tramway Company Limited, Indenture supplemental to that of 1st July 1901; 1912" British Library shelfmark MSS *'''L/F/8/19/1436''' “Rohilkund and Kumaon and Lucknow Bareilly State Railways and Powayan Steam Tramway, Reprint of contracts showing modifications up to and includng the contract of July 3rd 1914; 1917"  In addition :-*'''Mss Eur E290/104''' "Nineteen photographs of the Pawayan Steam Tramway, Shahjahanpur District, and of bungalows at [[Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway|Rosa]], near Shahjahanpur city, presumably inhabited by Europeans employed in the Rosa sugar factory Dated as: c.1880s"<blockquote> ''BL Catalogue comment - Sir Edward Bosc Sladen Collection: "Photographs of the route of the Pawayan Steam Tramway, Shahjahanpur District - Collection of prints, somewhat yellowed and faded, mounted on pages from an album, with captions written beneath. The collection consists of views of bungalows at [[Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway|Rosa]] (presumably for Europeans employed in the Rosa sugar and rum factory), and views of trains on the route of the Powayan Steam Railway between Shahjahanpur and Mailani."''</blockquote>

Sir Edward Bosc Sladen Collection: "Photographs of the route of the Pawayan Steam Tramway, Shahjahanpur District - Collection of 20 prints, somewhat yellowed and faded, mounted on pages from an album, with captions written beneath. The collection consists of views of bungalows at ==Further Information==See '''[[RosaRohilkund and Kumaon Railway]] (presumably for Europeans employed in the Rosa sugar and rum factory), and views of trains on the route of the Pawayan Steam Railway between Shahjahanpur and Mailani."'''

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