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In 1857-1858 he visited India, and was consulting engineer to the India Office, the [[East India Railway]](EIR) and other Indian railways, and, in 1870, was a member of the Commission to determine narrow gauge railways for Indian Railways. He designed the Lansdowne Bridge Rohri at Sukkur over the Indus River, which when it was completed in 1889 was the largest cantilever bridge in the world. The climax of his bridge-building career was considered to be the Howrah or Jubilee Bridge allowing trains to cross the Hooghly River near Calcutta; this was opened by the Viceroy on 21 February 1887
<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Meadows_Rendel Wikipedia "Alexander Meadows Rendel"]; Retrieved 23 Apr 2016</ref>
<ref > [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA561 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 598 (pdf page 561)] Retrieved on 12 May 2016</ref>
==Railway Achievements In India==
