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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" .

• 1962-70, Public Works Department, appointed Probationary Assistant Engineer and posted to the Northern road and related bridge works

Railway Achievements

• 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 - )
• 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.
• 1884-85, Sind-Sagar Railway survey
• 1885-86, Bolan Pass Railway Construction for North Western Railway (NWR)
• 1887, Khwaja Amran railway survey (This would be part of the NWR 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
• 1889, State Railways appointed Chief Consulting Engineer for State Railway
• 1892-94, Secretary to the Government of India, Public rDepartment
• 1894, Retiired