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| {{Line Railways Infobox
| | #Redirect [[Powayan Light Railway]] |
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| |route= [[Shahjahanpur]] to [[Mailani]]
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| |gauge1= Narrow (2'6") gauge <br>Traway
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| |gauge1details= 17 miles (1890)
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| |gauge2details= 38 miles (1904)
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| |timeline1date= 1890
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| |timeline1details= First section opened
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| |timeline2date= 1894
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| |timeline2details= Line fully opened to traffic
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| |timeline3date= ?
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| |timeline3details= Branch to <br> '''[[Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway]]'''
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| |timeline4date= 1904
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| |timeline4details= Line further extended to Mailani
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| |presidency= [[Bengal]]
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| |stations= [[Pawayan]], [[Shahjahanpur]], [[Mailani]]
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| |system1date= 1890
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| |system1details= Self operated and managed
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| |system2date= 1900
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| |system2details= [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]]
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| |system3date= c.1904
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| |system3details= Renamed '''[[Powayan Light Railway]]'''
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| The '''Powayan Steam Tramway''' was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) tramway, sometimes described as the '''Shahjahanpur-Mailani Tramway'''. The ‘Powayan Steam Tramway Company’ was registered on 22 April 1887 <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>
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| <ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_212.gif Imperial Gazetteer of India 1908" v. 22, p. 206.]; Retrieved 3 Sept 2016</ref>.
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| The section from [[Shahjahanpur]] via Rosa Junction to [[Pawayan]] ''(see note)'', a length of 17 miles(27km) opened in 1890. The line was constructed by the Powayan Steam Tramway Company and the maintenance taken over by the [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]](R&KR) in December 1900. The line was extended to reach [[Mailani]], a further 21 miles(34km) in 1904 <ref name=Powayan/>..
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| Rosa Junction is about 3 miles south-east of [[Shahjahanpur]] and where there was an interchange with the '''[[Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway]] ''', it was a private tramway with a length of 3.25 miles( 5.2km)
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| Following the taking over by the R&KR was renamed the '''[[Powayan Light Railway]]''' (see for later developments)
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| ''Note on spelling''
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| *[[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.
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| *Powayan Steam Tramway is the spelling of the Company in all documents and records
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| ==Records==
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| There are no staff records in the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]]
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| An on-line search of the IOR records relating to this railway <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved Jan 2016</ref> gives 5 references. The most important being:-
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| *'''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"
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| In addition :-
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| *'''Mss Eur E290/104''' "Nineteen photographs of the Pawayan Steam Tramway, Shahjahanpur District, and of bungalows at Rosa, near Shahjahanpur city, presumably inhabited by Europeans employed in the Rosa sugar factory Dated as: c1880s"
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| <blockquote> ''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]] (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>
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| ==Further Information==
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| See '''[[Powayan Light Railway]]''' and '''[[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]]'''
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| == References ==
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| <references />
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| [[Category:Railways]] | | [[Category:Railways]] |
| [[Category:Private Railways]]
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| [[Category:Tramways]] | | [[Category:Tramways]] |