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The section from [[Shahjahanpur]] to [[Powayan]], 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>[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>
<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 24 Dec 2015</ref>.
Refer to FIBIS Fact File #4: “Research sources for Indian Railways, 1845-1947” - available from the [http://www.fibis.org/store/fibis-books-and-publications/bff-0004-research-sources-for-indian-railways-1845-1947/ Fibis shop]. This Fact File contains invaluable advice on 'Researching ancestors There are no staff records in the UK records of Indian Railways' with particular reference to the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) held at the [[British Library]]
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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"
<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>
[[Category:Tramways]]
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|gauge4details=
|timeline1date= 1890
|timeline1details= First section openedas the <br> '''[[Powayan Steam Tramway Company|Powayan Steam Tramway]]'''
|timeline2date= 1894
|timeline2details= Line Tramway fully opened to traffic|timeline3date= 1904 ? |timeline3details= Line further extended Branch to Mailani<br>'''[[Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway]]'''|timeline4date= 1904|timeline4details= Line further extended to Mailani
|timeline5date=
|timeline5details=
|presidency= [[Bengal]]
|stations= [[Pawayan]], [[Shahjahanpur]], [[Mailani]]
|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=
}}
The '''Powayan Light Railway''' was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway sometimes which was first owned and worked by the '''[[Powayan Steam Tramway Company]]''' ''(see for early history)''. In some references also described as the '''Shahjahanpur-Mailani Tramway'''. 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>[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><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>. 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) Following the taking over by the [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]](R&KR) in December 1900 the tramway was renamed '''[[Powayan Light Railway]]'''. The 1918 Administraion 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> However the 1918 Administration Report records separately on the [[Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway]] from Rosa Town to the Rosa Sugar Factory, a length of 3.25 miles(5.2km) ‘A tramway constructed at the expense of Messrs Carew and Company connects the Rosa Sugar factory with Rosa station on the Oudh and Rohilhand Railway(O&RR). This tramway is 3.25 miles long and is worked by cattle power. It is used for goods traffic only’ <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n139/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 131, pdf page 139 Classified under O&RR]; Retrieved . Sept 2016</ref>. The O&RR had reached Rosa Junction in 1910 thus connecting to the O&RR 'Rosa-Sitapur Branch' There is un unconfirmed report that the 'Powayan Light Railway' closed in 1918. ''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, which later is recorded as the 'Powayan Light Railway'.
==Records==
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:-
*'''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"
== References ==
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[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Private Railways]]
[[Category:Narrow Gauge (NG) Railways]]
