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*'''[[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 Railway Bridge]] near Kushtia in Bangladesh.
*'''[[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.
