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Jubilee Bridge
Personnel
The plaque made on the occasion of the opening of the Jubilee Bridge is illustrated in “Symphony of Progress" page 22 [1]. It bears the following references:-
"Begun March 1884, Opened February 1887.
In the fiftieth or jubilee year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
by
- Right Honourable Earl of Dufferin - Viceroy and Governor General of India
- Honorable Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson - Lieutenant Governor of Bengal
- Sir Theodore Hope - Minister of Public Works
- R W Crawford - Chairman of the East Indian Railway Company
- General Design by Bradford Leslie and A M Rendel
- Design of Piers & Abutments by Bradford Leslie, Superstructure by A M Rendel
- Chief Engineer in India - Bradford Leslie
- Resident Engineers - F A Graf, A J Barry
- Assistant Engineers - Jones, Wagstaff, Montgomerie, Leslie Jr.
- Consulting Engineers to Government - Col deBourbel R.E., Col C H Luard R.E.
References
- ↑ “Symphony of Progress - The Saga of the Eastern Railway 1854-2003”; published by Eastern Railway, 2003; page 220