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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/>

*[[Patiala]] to [[Sunam]], a distance of 35 miles(56 km) via [[Basi]]<refname=name>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V07_101.gif "Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 7, p. 95. Basi"]; Retrieved 22 Dec 2015</ref>, 5 miles(8km) from [[Sirhind]] where there was a connection to the [[North Western Railway]]. The only published information about PSMT was in a 1908 edition of Imperial Gazetteer of India <ref name=name/> in which there was a brief mention. The gazetteer simply stated that "a mono-rail tramway, opened in February, 1907, connects '''Basi''' with the railway at Sirhind". An ordnance map of 1913 also shows a tramway running along west side of road, but does not mention the PSMT by name. Apart from the above, PSMT has not been mentioned in any official documents of that period in India.