John Salusbury Trevor
John Salusbury Trevor (1830-1896), Major Genral
Railway Acheivements
- 1855, Railway Department as Deputy Consulting Engineer, Bombay [1].
- 1858, promoted to Captain [1].
- 1861, made a member of the Bombay Municipality, in addition to his other duties [1].
- 1864-66, medical leave to England [1].
- 1866, appointed Executive Engineer of the Tapti Irrigation Works, however due to a vacancy transferred to Railway Branch - PWD [1].
- 1867, promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel [1].
- 1868, Consulting Engineer and Under Secretary to the Government of Bombay [1].
- 1870, appointed Chief Engineer of the Bombay Presidency [1].
- 1872, Consulting Engineer for Railways and Under Secretary to Goverment Railway Branch [2].
- 1872, promoted Colonel, acted as Deputy Secretary to the Government of India Railway Branch, then returned to England on medical leave [1].
- 1878 returned to India appointed Officiating Deputy-Secretary to the Government of India in the Railway Branch [1].
- 1878, end of that year he retired from the army with the rank of Major-General[1].
- 1880, appointed Government of India Director General of Railways in India.
- He then returned to England, where his wide experience and profound knowledge of the working of Indian Railways were utilized by several of the Guaranteed Companies, on the Boards of which he had a seat. At the time of his death, 1896, he was Chairman of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, the Southern Mahratta Railway and the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway Companies, all of which are greatly indebted for the prosperity of their several undertakings to his accurate nowledge of the local conditions affecting their working and to the untiring energy with which he devoted himself to the promotion of their interests.