Ernest Ifill Shadbolt

Ernest Ifill Shadbolt; Director of Railway Construction (retired); b. 1851;

Railway Achievements

• Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper’s Hill, Surrey England
• 1874; Public Works Department
• Assistant Engineer on construction of Idore, Dhond Manmad, Bhopal State Railways
• 1874-83; services lent to Bhavanagar and Gondal State Railways
• 1887-91; Executive Engineer on construction of Sind-Pishin, Kathiawar, East Coast State Railways
• 1888-93; Engineer-in-Chief, Bezwada-Madras, Madura-Pamban, Tinnevelly-Quilon Railway Surveys
• 1893-95; Engineer-in-chief, Indus Bridge Works, Kotri-Rohri Railway
• 1895-1901; Senior Inspector of Railways, Madras
• 1902-04; Director of Railway Construction, Government of India
• 1904-06; retired from Indian Railways Branch PWD