Patiala State Monorail Trainways
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Patiala State Monorail Trainways (PSMT) was a unique rail-guided, partially road-borne railway system running in Patiala from 1907 to 1927.[1][2] PSMT was the second monorail system in India, after the Kundala Valley Railway,[3] near Munnar in Kerala, and the only operational locomotive-hauled railway system built using the Ewing System in the world.[4] 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,[5] PSMT was the only monorail system in India until its closure in 1927. These were the only instances of a monorail train system in India, until the Mumbai Monorail was opened on 2 February 2014.
Patiala State Monorail Trainways | |
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Overview | |
Locale | Patiala State |
Transit type | Monorail |
Number of lines | 2 |
Operation | |
Began operation | February 1907 |
Ended operation | 1927 |
Technical | |
System length | 50 mi (80 km) |
A locomotive and a coach of PSMT have been restored, are in running condition and are exhibited in the Indian National Rail Museum, New Delhi.