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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 | 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://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== | ==Railway Achievements In India== | ||
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Alexander Meadows Rendel, Sir (1829-1918) was a civil engineer and a Consulting Engineer to the East Indian Railway Company
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 [1] [2]
Railway Achievements In India
- Naini Bridge. The location of the bridge between Naini and Allahabad had been decided as early as 1855. Rendel was engaged as the designer.The actual work began in 1859 and the bridge was opened for public on August 15, 1865. It comprises 14 spans of 200 feet and two of 60 feet[3].
- Lansdowne Bridge. Between 1872 and 1882 bridge surveys were conducted and different people suggested 5 different bridge proposals. None of them was considered completely feasible at that time. The engineer Rendel was then called in and he proposed a design consisting of two anchored cantilevers, each 310 feet long, carrying a suspended span of 200 ft in the middle. Interestingly, this design was considered feasible and later came to be known as the Lansdowne Bridge. Construction started in 1887 and when it was completed in 1889 was the largest cantilever bridge in the world. The bridge provided the railway link between Lahore, in the heart of the granary of British India, and the port of Karachi on the Arabian Sea [4].
- Jubilee Bridge. The climax of his bridge-building career was considered to be the Jubilee Bridge at Howrah allowing trains to cross the Hooghly River to Calcutta. The Bridge was designed by Alexander Meadows Rendel, Consulant Engineer for EIR and Bradford Leslie, EIR Chief Engineer. The construction started in 1882 and was completed in 1887. The Chief Engineer in charge of construction works was Lt Col Arthur John Barry. The Jubilee Bridge was opened on 16 February 1887 in the fiftieth or jubilee year of the reign of Queen Victoria [5].
References
- ↑ Wikipedia "Alexander Meadows Rendel"; Retrieved 23 Apr 2016
- ↑ Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 598 (pdf page 561) Retrieved on 12 May 2016
- ↑ Wikipedia "Old Naini Bridge"; Retrieved 23 Apr 2016
- ↑ Wikipedia "Lansdowne Bridge"; Retrieved 23 Apr 2016
- ↑ "Wikipedia “ Jubilee Bridge India”; Retrieved 23 Apr 2016