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Bengal-Nagpur Railway Personnel

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BNR Running Staff details added and photo moved from main BNR page
*[[Reginald Samuel John Routh]], 1890, Executive Engineer <ref > "India Civil List" 1890, page 40/41</ref>
*[[C W Bowles]] Colonel; date unknown but prior to 1907; BNR Engineer in charge of constructing its workshops, houses, schools, churches, hospitals, armoury, recreational facilities and a gaol. It was during this period that he experimented with using the [[Ewing System Monorail]] for transporting construction material during the laying of railway tracks for BNR. The [[Ewing System Monorail|Ewing System]] was subsqently used by Bowles for the [[Patiala State Monorail Trainways]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_C._W._Bowles Wikipedia " Colonel C W Bowles]; Retrieved on 1 Jun 2016</ref>
 
==BNR Loco Running Staff, Khargpur 1910==
[[Image:Bnrkhargur.jpg|thumb|right|BNR Loco Running Staff 1910]]
 
The following people have been identified from the BNR photograph
<br> The individual images can be seen on [https://www.flickr.com/photos/valmay/sets/72157629925455005 Flickr BNR Running Staff 1910 uploaded from the persnal collection of Valmay Young]:-
 
*J Mahar, Night Foreman
*F W Bird, Director
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