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*Z/E/4/25/R754; Rivers, Hooghly, Plans for bridge over at Calcutta, correspondence respecting"; 1854-55
''The implication here is that there where earlier proposals to bridge the Hooghly River - these have not been investigated''
==Personnel involved with design and construction==
The plaque made on the occasion of the opening of the Jubilee Bridge is illustrated in “Symphony of Progress" page 22
<ref> “Symphony of Progress - The Saga of the Eastern Railway 1854-2003”; published by Eastern Railway, 2003; page 220</ref>. It bears the following references:-
"Begun March 1884, Opened February 1887.
In the fiftieth or jubilee year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
by
*Right Honourable Earl of Dufferin - Viceroy and Governor General of India
*Honorable Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson - Lieutenant Governor of Bengal
*Sir Theodore Hope - Minister of Public Works
*R W Crawford - Chairman of the East Indian Railway Company
*General Design by [[Bradford Leslie]] and [[Alexander Meadows Rendel|A M Rendel]]
*Design of Piers & Abutments by [[Bradford Leslie]], Superstructure by [[Alexander Meadows Rendel|A M Rendel]]
*Chief Engineer in India - [[Bradford Leslie]]
*Resident Engineers - F A Graf, [[Arthur John Barry|A J Barry]]
*Assistant Engineers - Jones, Wagstaff, Montgomerie, Leslie Jr.
*Consulting Engineers to Government - Col deBourbel R.E., Col C H Luard R.E."
== References ==
