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==Personnel Records== added
Maharaja Sir Bhupinder Singh of the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Patiala State]] had this unique railway system constructed to facilitate movement of people and goods in his state. The chief engineer of this project was Colonel [[C W Bowles]] who had earlier successfully used a monorail based on [[Ewing System Monorail|Ewing System]] (designed by William Thorold) during his stint as engineer for the [[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]] when responsible for the [[Bengal-Nagpur Railway Kharagpur Construction Monorail|Construction works at Kharagpur ]] used for transportation of construction materials . Colonel [[C W Bowles|Bowles]] was made chief Engineer for the PSMT project. One of the objects of PSMT was to make use of the 560 mules being maintained by Patiala State. Apart from mules, bullocks were also used to haul the monorail before introduction of steam locomotives on the route of PSMT <ref name=Ambler/>.
==Personnel Records==
No information or records have been found, except by obscure references:-
*[[C W Bowles|Colonel C W Bowles]] was made chief Engineer <ref name=Ambler/>, ''mentioned above''
*[[Herbert Septimus Harington]] is reported to have "died whilst supervising the construction of a light railway system for the State of Patiala"<ref name=Grace>[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Herbert_Septimus_Harington ‘Grace’s Guide/Inst of Mechanical Engineers Obituary 1914’ “'Herbert Septimus Harington” ] Retrieved on 21 Nov 2018</ref>. He died in 1913 and buried at Simla. This can only be in connection with the PSMT but nothing more is known.
==PSMT Lines==
