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==Railway Achievements== | ==Railway Achievements== | ||
<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_C._W._Bowles Wikipedia " Colonel C W Bowles]; Retrieved on 18 Apr 2016</ref> | <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_C._W._Bowles Wikipedia " Colonel C W Bowles]; Retrieved on 18 Apr 2016</ref> | ||
| − | *'''[[Bengal Nagpur Railway]] Company'''(BNR); Engineer in charge of constructing its | + | *'''[[Bengal Nagpur Railway]] Company'''(BNR); Engineer in charge of constructing its ‘[[Kharagpur Railway 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| ‘Ewing System’]] for transporting construction material during the laying of railway tracks for BNR. |
| − | *'''[[Patiala State Monorail Trainways]]''' Chief Engineer in charge of the construction using the [[Ewing System Monorail]], and later operation, of the unique rail-guided, partially road-borne railways system running in [[Patiala]] from 1907 to 1927. | + | *'''[[Patiala State Monorail Trainways]]''' Chief Engineer in charge of the construction using the ‘[[Ewing System Monorail]]’, and later operation, of the unique rail-guided, partially road-borne railways system running in [[Patiala]] from 1907 to 1927. |
== References == | == References == | ||
Latest revision as of 09:37, 14 October 2020
C W Bowles Colonel (d.1865), was a British civil engineer engaged in India.
Railway Achievements
- Bengal Nagpur Railway Company(BNR); Engineer in charge of constructing its ‘Kharagpur Railway Workshops’, houses, schools, churches, hospitals, armoury, recreational facilities and a gaol. It was during this period that he experimented with using the ‘Ewing System’ for transporting construction material during the laying of railway tracks for BNR.
- Patiala State Monorail Trainways Chief Engineer in charge of the construction using the ‘Ewing System Monorail’, and later operation, of the unique rail-guided, partially road-borne railways system running in Patiala from 1907 to 1927.
References
- ↑ Wikipedia " Colonel C W Bowles; Retrieved on 18 Apr 2016
