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The section from [[Shahjahanpur]] via Rosa Junction to [[Pawayan]] ''(see note)Note on spelling'', 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 RailwayPawayan]](R&KR) is the spelling given in December 1900. The line was extended to reach the [[MailaniImperial Gazetteer of India]], 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_212I34_V20_087.gif Imperial ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India 1908" India’ v. 2220, p. 20681.]; 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'.
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[[File:Powayan Light Railway.png|thumb| Powayan Light Railway ]]The '''Powayan Light Railway''' was a 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]) railway which was first owned and worked by the .<br>The '''[[Powayan Steam Tramway Company]]''' ''(see for early history)''was the owner of the railway and ‘Steam Tramway’ was the first description. <br>In some references also described as the '''Shahjahanpur-Mailani Tramway'''.
==History==*The section from [[Shahjahanpur]] via Rosa Junction to [[Pawayan]] ''(see Note)'', a length of 17 miles(27km) opened in 1890 <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>. The line was constructed by the Powayan Steam Tramway Company and was owned by Carew & Company of Calcutta , who also managed forest land in the marshy jungle foot-hills of the Himalayas. [[Eric Cambell Geddes]], with his railroad and logging experience, was appointed Manager of the estate. As an aid to further jungle clearance he extended the existing light railway and became Manager of the ‘Powayan Steam Tramway’ <ref name=geddes>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MUW8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=Powayan+Steam+Tramway&source=bl&ots=GvJ5wPT_Ds&sig=c4nDCnAvrm_M3-5Jw6yqaWI6Ggc&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWiYvo7_LOAhXB2RoKHeyOBLgQ6AEINjAE#v=onepage&q=Powayan%20Steam%20Tramway&f=false Google Books “Sir Eric Geddes: Business and Government in War and Peace” by Keith Grieves, 1989, page 3]; 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)[[Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway|''see separate page'']]*In 1899 [[Eric Cambell Geddes|Eric Geddes]] joined the [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]](R&KR) when it assumed control of the extended line <ref name=geddes/> and the working and maintenance fully taken over by the [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]](R&KR) in December 1900 <ref name=Powayan/>. In 1901 he became Traffic Superintendent of R&KR which then included the renamed [[Powayan Light Railway]] and returned to Britain in 1903 <ref name=geddes/>.* Following the taking over by the [[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]](R&KR) in December 1900 the tramway was renamed ''' ‘Powayan Light Railway’.*The line was finally reached [[Powayan Light RailwayMailani]]''', a further 21 miles(34km) in 1904 <ref name=Powayan/>.
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)
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 <br>The line is not showing on spelling''*[[Pawayan]] is the spelling given in the [[Imperial 1931 ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India]] India’ Map<ref>[httphttps://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteergaz_atlas_1931/pagerfullscreen.html?objectidobject=DS405.1.I34_V20_087.gif “Imperial 32 ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India” v. 20, p. 81.India’ 1931 Railway Map]; Retrieved 3 Sept 2016Jul 2020</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==
*'''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"
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*'''Mss Eur E290/104''' "Nineteen photographs of the Pawayan Steam Tramway, Shahjahanpur District, and of bungalows at [[Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway|Rosa]], near Shahjahanpur city, presumably inhabited by Europeans employed in the Rosa sugar factory Dated as: c.1880s"
<blockquote> ''BL Catalogue 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 Sugar Factory Tramway|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>
==Further Information==
See '''[[Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway]]'''
== References ==
