Bezwada-Madras Railway
Bezwada-Madras Railway
The Bezwada-Madras Railway was surveyed in November 1893 by Consulting Engineer Francis Joseph Edward Spring. The 1898 detailed scale drawings of bridges, stations, offices, railway station machinery, temporary buildings, road crossings designs of were made by E J Moore Engineer-in-Chief of the Bezwada-Madras Railway and J C Lyle being his Assistant. [1]
The railway was opened in 1899 as part of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway(M&SMR)
Personnel
No Staff Lists have been found.
The “Indian Biographical Dictionary” gives Ernest Ifill Shadbolt, Public Works Department, Executive Engineer from 1888 to 1893 as 'Engineer-in-Chief of the Bezwada-Madras Railway Survey and Madura-Pamban, Tinnevelly-Quilon Railway Surveys ' [2]
References
- ↑ Google Books - "India and Indian Office List, 1905 - Record of Services" page 546;Retrieved 16 Apr 2016
- ↑ “Indian Biographical Dictionary” 1915 page 390; Retrieved on 27 May 2016
