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1879 and 1880 Railway Conference info added
*'''[[Eastern Bengal Railway]]'''(EBR), 1865 Leslie was sent to India as engineer in charge of bridges and viaducts. He supervised the building of the Eschamutter and Koormar river bridge - see [[EBR Bridges 1869-70]] for details, photograhs etc. He became Agent and Chief Engineer of EBR in 1876.
*'''[[East India Railway]] Company'''(EIR) His greatest achievement in India was the Hooghly Bridge (known as the [[Jubilee Bridge]] when it opened in 1887 for which he was appointed a Knight Commander Order of the Indian Empire. He also designed an unusual floating pontoon bridge which straddled the Hooghly in Calcutta for 70 years and the [[Gorai River Railway Bridge]] near Kushtia in Bangladesh.
**1879, 10 Feb ‘[[Railway Conference]]’, Calcutta. Delegate as Agent and Chief Engineer EIR <ref>British Library ‘India Office Records L/PARL/2/100 “Railways in India for the year 1878-79” by Juland Danvers , Government Director of the Indian Railways’-– presented to both Houses of Parliament’ by HM Command. Extract from Annual Report 1878-79; Para 23 , page 10</ref>
**1880 , 6-13 Jan ‘[[Railway Conference]]’, Calcutta. Delegate as Agent and Chief Engineer EIR <ref> “Railways in India for the year 1880-81” by Juland Danvers , Government Director of the Indian Railways’-– presented to both Houses of Parliament’ by HM Command. Extract from Annual Report 1880-81; pages 4-5 </ref>.
*'''[[Southern Punjab Railway]]'''(SPR), 1895. The Company was formed with Leslie as Chairman. Under contract with the Secretary of State for India, Leslie and his partners formed the company to build a broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]]) Railway from [[Delhi]] to [[Samasata]] 400 miles to the west.
