In 1907 the first section of an unusual Railway on the "Ewing system", connecting Bassi with Sirhind ( 6 miles) was opened in Patiala State. Col. Bowles who designed this system became state Engineer and laid the Patiala State Monorail Trainway (about 50 miles in length from Sirhind - Alampura - Patiala and Patiala - Bavanigarh). The track was a single rail along one side the road. On this rail ran the load carrying wheels of the train while a larger single wheel at the end of an outrigger ran on the road to keep the train upright.

Originally the trains were pulled by mules to make use of more than 500 Govt. mules maintained by the state for its army. Orenstein & Koppel of Berlin supplied 4 unique locomotives for this system in 1909. M/s Marsland Price & Co. constructed, maintained and managed those lines until 1917, when the work was taken over by the State through a contractor. On account of tough competition with other modes of transport and maintenance difficulties it was gradually abandoned and finally closed down on October 1927.

In 1962 these locos and coaches were discovered half burried in the PWD Scrap yard at Patiala and subsequently these were restored and put in working order in 1976 by the Northern Railway Workshop, Amritsar.

This present coach is a reproduced body, built at Amritsar Workshops (Northern Railway) in 1976, on an original underframe.The coach was the private inspection saloon of Col. Bowles, who built the Trainway in 1907.Wooden seats have been fitted for passengers in place of the original cane chairs.