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The '''Kumaon Iron Works Tramway''' was proposed in 1859 In 1856 a proposal to survey and construct provide a railroad or tramway, Tramway to connect to the ironworks in Iron Mines at [[Kumaon]] with was put forward by the trunk line [[North of the railway in the India Tramway Company Limited]]. The project did not proceed [[Upper ProvincesNorth_of_India_Tramway_Company_Limited#Kumaon_Iron_Mine| - ''see seperate page for details'']] <ref>British Library IOR/F/8/6(544), page 1 “Contract of Mr William Dent on his providing the East Indies as a civil engineer to assist in their conduct of operations connected with the Kumaon Tramway”. Dent signed a contract to act as an assistant to W Hardy Wells. To conduct operations to survey and construct a railroad or tramway, to connect the ironworks in Kumaon with the trunk line at the railway in the upper provinces</ref>.

A later proposal in 1859 for the '''Kumaon Iron Works Tramway''' was put forward to survey and construct a railroad or tramway, to connect the ironworks in [[Kumaon]] with the trunk line of the railway in the [[Upper Provinces]] <ref>British Library IOR/F/8/6(544), page 1 “Contract of Mr William Dent on his providing the East Indies as a civil engineer to assist in their conduct of operations connected with the Kumaon Tramway”. Dent signed a contract to act as an assistant to W Hardy Wells. To conduct operations to survey and construct a railroad or tramway, to connect the ironworks in Kumaon with the trunk line at the railway in the upper provinces</ref>. It is not known if the this tramway was ever constructed; but in any event the Iron Works closed in 1864.