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==Railway Achievements in India==
*1858-63, [[Great Southern of India Railway]](GSIR), Resident Engineer on the construction of the Negapatam-Trichinopoly section until 1863, when he succeeded Mr. [[Mark William Carr]] as Chief Engineer of the line <ref name=ice>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/imotp.1896.19540 Institute of Civil Engineers "Obituary David Logan"]; Retrieved 19 June 2016</ref>.
*1863-66, GSIR Chief Engineer a position he held until resigning in 1866 to superintend the reclamation work at the [[Bombay Back BayReclamation Scheme Railway]]. The narrow strip of land that had been reclaimed was obtained by the Government and given to [[Bombay, Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway]](BB&CIR) to enable them to lay a line from the Churchgate to [[Colaba]]. <ref name=ice/>
*1869 [[Great Southern of India Railway]], re-appointed as GSIR Chief Engineer, "which was at that time a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) line, extending from [[Negapatam]] to [[Erode]]" <ref name=grace>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/David_Logan Grace’s Guide "David Logan"]; Retrieved on 19 Jun 2016</ref>.
*On 1st July 1874 the Great Southern of India Railway Company and the [[Carnatic Railway]], were amalgamated under the title of the '''[[South Indian Railway]]'''.
