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Powayan Steam Tramway Company

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<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>.
The section from [[Shahjahanpur]] via Rosa Junction to [[Pawayan]] ''(see noteNote)'', 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/>..
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 miles25miles( 5.2km).
Following the taking over by the R&KR was renamed the '''[[Powayan Light Railway]]''' (see for later developments)
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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: c1880s"<blockquote> ''Comment 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>
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[[Category:Tramways]]
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