R.A.Way

R A Way was a British Engineer and appointed by the Government of India(GoI) to investigate several railway projects.

• Assam-Burma Connection Railway was surveyed by R.A.Way and reported in 1896 on three possible routes:-
  • Coast Route Chittagong on the Assam-Bengal Railway along the Arakan coast and over the An Pass to the Chindwin river in Burma;
  • Manipur Route From the neighbourhood of Lumding on the Assam-Bengal Railway, by way of Manipur, into tho Kubaw valley at Taromu, and thence, crossing the Chindwin river near Yuwa, to a junction with the Mu Valley Railway in Burma near Wuntho.
  • Hukoig Valley Route From Ledo on the Dibrugarh-Sadiya Railway in the north- east corner of Assam, via the Hukong Valley, to a junction with the Mu Valley Railway in the neighbourhood of Mogaung ; the .

• Tirhoot State Railway(TSR); Executive Engineer in charge of the construction of the Gunduck Bridge completed in 1887 and consisted of 5 spans of 250 feet with a half mile viaduct on one bank of the river.