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Tounghoo-Mandalay Railway
The Tounghoo-Mandalay Railway was an extension of the Sittang Valley State Railway(SVSR) , it was under construction in 1886 and 13 miles of the Tounghoo-Mandalay extension opened in 1890. [1].
In 1896 the ‘Sittang Valley State Railway’ was transferred to the newly formed Burma Railway Company
Personnel
- Thomas Ellis Owen,1886 December, deployed from the Railway Branch of the Public Works Department to the ‘Toungoo-Mandalay State Railway’ in charge of the 7th Division until his retirement in 1888
- Frederick Lewis Dibblee, 1886 November, as Engineer-in-Chief until his death in September 1888
Further Information
See Sittang Valley State Railway
and Burma Railway from 1896 onward
References
- ↑ "Evening Post", Volume XLII, Issue 40, 15 August 1891, Page 2; Retrieved 14 Dec 2015