Francis Langford O'Callaghan

Francis Langford O'Callaghan Sir (1839-1909)

Biography from Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland - Furnivall, Willoughby Charles"

• 1862-66, Public Works Department(PWD), appointed Probationary Assistant Engineer and posted to the Northern road and related bridge works .
• 1866, Promoted to PWD Executive Engineer .

Railway Achievements

• 1870, Transferred to Public Works Department Railway Branch, and served as Engineer-in-Chief of various railway surveys .
• 1871 Feb, joined the State Railways system, by this time as Executive Engineer .
• 1871, first posted to Nagpur & Raipur railway survey railway survey (Nagpur - must be the Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway which opened in 1871; Raipur - survey not identified)
• 1872-75, Wardha Valley Railway construction works .
• 1877-79, Tirhoot State Railway, Chief Engineer .
• 1879-83, Punjab Northern State Railway, construction of the Rawalpindi-Peshawar section that included the Attock Bridge over the Indus River . Promoted to Superintending Engineer, 1880 .
• 1884-85, Sind-Sagar Railway survey .
• 1885-86, Bolan Pass Railway Construction, Engineer-in-Chief, a strategic line constructed on Government orders
• 1887, Khwaja Amran railway survey for North Western State Railway (NWR) (This would be part of the survey which included the Khojak Tunnel and the extension of the line to the Afghan border at Chaman).
• 1887-89, Khojak Tunnel and Chaman extension for North Western State Railway (NWR)
• 1889, Promoted to Chief Engineer .
• 1889, State Railways appointed Chief Consulting Engineer for State Railway .
• 1892-94, Secretary to the Government of India, Public Works Department .
• 1894, Retired .