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Revised sub-heading 'Dharwar Light Railway/River link to Karwar Proposal, 1858'
<blockquote>The [[India Office Records]] IOR/E/4/843 p1239 in a letter dated 29th April 1857 it was suggested that experiments for using tramways instead of common roads were being carried out in the Madras Territories and may be used in the Punjab. There is no evidence that this proposal were adopted.</blockquote>
[[Karwar-Dharwar Light Railway /River link to Karwar Proposal, 1858|'''Karwar-Dharwar Light Railway /River link to Karwar Proposal, 1858''' - see separate page for details]]
<blockquote>This proposal was put forward by Colonel [[Arthur Thomas Cotton|Cotton]] of the [[Madras Engineers]] in 1858 as a means of transporting the large volumes of cotton from [[Dharwar]], about 75 miles(120km) inland to a port at [[Karwar]] at the mouth of the River Kali, from where the cotton would be pressed and shipped directly to England. The trains would be gravity driven with 2 brakemen; the trucks would be returned to the top using bullocks. An experiment was conducted with ¾ inch bars welded throughout with no joins and worked with wagons with double flanges with the tyres sloped to allow the wagon to running round a very sharp curve freely. The proposal was not adopted. </blockquote>
