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|timeline3date= ? 1904 |timeline3details= Branch Line further extended to <br>'''[[Rosa Sugar Factory Tramway]]'''Mailani |timeline4date= 1904|timeline4details= Line further extended to Mailani

[[File:Powayan Light RailwayMap.png|thumb| Powayan Light Railway ]]

*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 ‘Powayan Steam Tramway Company and ‘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 was 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 extended to reach [[Mailani]], a further 21 miles(34km) in 1904 <ref name=Powayan/>.

The 1918 Administraion Administration 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 It is reported that ‘Powayan Light Railway’ “from Shahjahanpur via Powayan to the Rosa Sugar FactoryMailani, which was constructed by a length subsidised company and worked as part 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(OR&RR). This tramway is 3.25 miles long KR System since 17 Dec 1900, was dismantled during WW1 and is worked acquired by cattle power. It is used for goods traffic only’ the State in 1920-21” <ref>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/stream30/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystemitems/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#pagein.ernet.dli.2015.36650/n139/mode/1up “Administration Report on 2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways 1918” , constructed and in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 131, 190 pdf page 139 Classified under O&RR231]; Retrieved . Sept 2016 12 Dec 2020</ref>. The O&RR had reached Rosa Junction in 1910 thus connecting to the O&RR 'Rosa-Sitapur Branch'

There is unconfirmed report that the 'Powayan Light Railway' closed in 1918.<br>The line is not showing on the 1931 ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India’ Map