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The [[Patiala State Monorail Trainways]](PSMT) was a unique rail-guided, partially road-borne railways system running in [[Patiala]] from 1907 to 1927.
<refname=name>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patiala_State_Monorail_Trainways Wikipedia "Patiala State Monorail Trainways"]; Retrieved 13 Dec 2015</ref> Maharaja Sir Bhupinder Singh of the [[Princely states|Princely ]][[Patiala State]] got 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 monorail based on Ewing System (designed by William Thorold) during his stint as engineer during laying of tracks for [[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]] for transportation of construction materials and 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=name/>
The total distance covered by PSMT was 50 miles (80 km). PSMT was run on two unconnected lines.The lines were constructed by the firm of Marsland and Price, based in Bombay.
==Monorail System==
The PMST was the second monorail system in India, after the [[Kundale Valley Light Railway]], and the only operational locomotive-hauled railway system built using the Ewing System in the world.
The Kundala Valley Railway pre-dated this, also using the Ewing system between 1902 and 1908, although this only used bullocks for haulage. Following the conversion of the Kundala Valley Railway from a monorail to a narrow gauge railway in 1908, the PSMT was the only monorail system in India until its closure in 1927.
== References ==
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[[Category:Monorail]]
[[Category:Railways]]
[[Category:Indian States Railways]]
