Robert Atwell Way

Robert Atwell Way was trained at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper’s Hill, Surrey England.

Railway Achievements

State Railways posted from PWD; 1880, Executive Engineer^[1].
Bengal and North-Western Railway Company; 1884, on loan^[1].
Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company; 1887, on loan^[1].
Tirhoot State Railway(TSR); Executive Engineer in charge of the construction of the Gunduck Bridge completed in 1887 and consisted of 5 spans of 250 feet with a half mile viaduct on one bank of the river^[2].
Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway Company; 1889, on loan^[1].
Chittagong-Akyab-Minhla Railway Survey; 1893 and promoted to Superintending Engineer, 1896^[1].

Appointed by the Government of India to investigate several railway projects^[3].
- Assam-Burma Connection Railway was surveyed by R A Way and reported in 1896 on three possible routes:-
  - Coast Route - Chittagong on the Assam-Bengal Railway along the Arakan coast and over the An Pass to the Chindwin river in Burma;
  - Manipur Route - From the neighbourhood of Lumding on the Assam-Bengal Railway, by way of Manipur, into tho Kubaw valley at Taromu, and thence, crossing the Chindwin river near Yuwa, to a junction with the Mu Valley Railway in Burma near Wuntho.
  - Hukoig Valley Route - From Ledo on the Dibrugarh-Sadiya Railway in the north- east corner of Assam, via the Hukong Valley, to a junction with the Mu Valley Railway in the neighbourhood of Mogaung.