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The '''Chak-Nizam Bridge''', also known as the '''Victoria Bridge''' was completed in early 1887 over the river Jhelum in the [[Shahpur]] district about 100 miles north-west of Lahore. It was a vital link in the [[Sind-Sagar Railway]] that had become part of the [[North Western Railway]](NWR) and formed the NWR mailine <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n116/mode/2up " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government  Printing,  Calcutta;  page 107, pdf page 116]; Retrieved 15 Jul 2016</ref>


The construction of the bridge colourfully described in the "Civil and Military Gazette", 18 May 1887 <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IcGwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=Sind-Sagar+Railway&source=bl&ots=YG60t7pX5D&sig=KmrjM8ls0tWpKlm1ls37RkbFfFE&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt2syilPLNAhWPSxoKHU8UCjQQ6AEIWzAJ#v=onepage&q=Sind-Sagar%20Railway&f=false Google Books "Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88" by Rudyard Kipling, pages 215-218]; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016</ref>.




Originally constructed to metre gauge, the '''Sind-Sagar Railway''' was later converted to broad gauge. In 1886 the eastern section of the was amlagamted with other railways to form the [[North-Western State Railway]].
The Engineers were James Ramsay, Engineer-in-Chief Sind State Railway; [[Frederick Robert Upcott]], Engineer-in-Charge of the Bridge; Mr Boydell, Executive Engineer and Mr J Spence, Sub-Engineer


Became the Sind-Sagar Branch of the NWR, described in 1916 as the 'Frontier Section'
Rudyard Kipling reports a speech by the Chief Engineer, James Ramsay, in which various delays and accidents are mentioned, including 'having to wait for the girder-work not arrived from England'
*Lala Musa to Malakwal, 46.12 miles, opened in 1880 as MG, subsequently converted to BG 1886.
<ref>[https://ia801009.us.archive.org/8/items/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System.pdf  " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government  Printing,  Calcutta;  page 107, pdf page 116]; Retrieved 15 Jul 2016</ref>
*Malakwal to
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_bridgebuilders1.htm
 
The '''[[Chak-Nizam Bridge]]''', also known as the '''Victoria Bridge''' was completed in early 1887 over the river Jhelum in the [[Shahpur]] district about 100 miles north-west of Lahore. The Engineers were James Ramsay, Engineer-in-Chief Sind State Railway; [[Frederick Robert Upcott]], Engineer-in-Charge of the Bridge; Mr Boydell, Executive Engineer and Mr J Spence, Sub-Engineer
 
1887is colourfully described in the "Civil and Military Gazette", 18 May 1887 <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IcGwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=Sind-Sagar+Railway&source=bl&ots=YG60t7pX5D&sig=KmrjM8ls0tWpKlm1ls37RkbFfFE&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt2syilPLNAhWPSxoKHU8UCjQQ6AEIWzAJ#v=onepage&q=Sind-Sagar%20Railway&f=false Google Books "Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88" by Rudyard Kipling, pages 215-218]; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016</ref>.
 
 
Kipling reports a speach by the Chief Engineer, James Ramsay, in which various delays and accidents are mentioned, including 'having to wait for the girder-work not arrived from England'
<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N6E1CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA576&lpg=PA576&dq=chak+nizam+bridge&source=bl&ots=UD6BLbKXnC&sig=dQLKjlqmWLgSrzvhOKjuyheePtA&hl=fr&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj3zqjXlvLNAhXFPBoKHbrtDCYQ6AEIYTAN#v=onepage&q=chak%20nizam%20bridge&f=false Google Books "Stories and Poems" by Rudyard Kipling, page 576]; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016</ref>.
<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N6E1CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA576&lpg=PA576&dq=chak+nizam+bridge&source=bl&ots=UD6BLbKXnC&sig=dQLKjlqmWLgSrzvhOKjuyheePtA&hl=fr&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj3zqjXlvLNAhXFPBoKHbrtDCYQ6AEIYTAN#v=onepage&q=chak%20nizam%20bridge&f=false Google Books "Stories and Poems" by Rudyard Kipling, page 576]; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016</ref>.


== References ==
<references />


 
[[Category:Railways]]
 
[[Category:Railway Constructions]]
 
 
==Personnel==
No Staff Records are available at the [[British Library]] [[India Office Records]]
 
The following personnel have been identified from various sources as being posted to this railway:-
 
*[[Francis Langford O'Callaghan]], 1884-85, posted from [[State Railways]] as Chief Engineer, Survey of the Sind-Sagar Railway <ref>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.457 Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland - O'Callaghan, Francis Langford "]; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016</ref>. 
*[[Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne]], c.1884, Executive Engineer posted from PWD for 'short stint' to Sind-Sagar Railway <ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Trevredyn_Rashleigh_Wynne Grace's Guide "Trevredyn Rashleigh Wynne"]; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016</ref>.
*[[James Ramsay]], Executive Engineer from the [[Public Works Department]](PWD) was Engineer-in-Chief of the Sind-Sagar Railway in the 1880's <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA595 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 595 (pdf page 558)] Retrieved on 21 May 2016</ref>.

Revision as of 04:51, 15 July 2016

The Chak-Nizam Bridge, also known as the Victoria Bridge was completed in early 1887 over the river Jhelum in the Shahpur district about 100 miles north-west of Lahore. It was a vital link in the Sind-Sagar Railway that had become part of the North Western Railway(NWR) and formed the NWR mailine [1]

The construction of the bridge colourfully described in the "Civil and Military Gazette", 18 May 1887 [2].


The Engineers were James Ramsay, Engineer-in-Chief Sind State Railway; Frederick Robert Upcott, Engineer-in-Charge of the Bridge; Mr Boydell, Executive Engineer and Mr J Spence, Sub-Engineer

Rudyard Kipling reports a speech by the Chief Engineer, James Ramsay, in which various delays and accidents are mentioned, including 'having to wait for the girder-work not arrived from England' [3].

References

  1. ↑ " Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 107, pdf page 116; Retrieved 15 Jul 2016
  2. ↑ Google Books "Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88" by Rudyard Kipling, pages 215-218; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016
  3. ↑ Google Books "Stories and Poems" by Rudyard Kipling, page 576; Retrieved on 14 Jul 2016
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