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==Railway Achievements in India==
*1849; '''[[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]]''' Appointed chief resident engineerChief Resident Engineer.The Court of Directors of the [[East India Company]] appointed James John Berkeley as Chief Resident Engineer with [[Charles Buchanan Ker]] and [[Robert W Graham]] as his assistants <ref name=GIPR>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Great_Indian_Peninsula_Railway Grace's Gide "Great Indian Peninsula Railway which quotes from 'Morning Post' - Saturday 18 August 1849""]; Retrieved on 25 May 2020</ref>.
*1850 January; he left England for India. Having first decided on a scheme for the construction of a short line of thirty-three miles from [[Bombay]] to Callian, he turned his attention to the extensions of the railway, and especially to the great work involved in carrying the line over the Western Ghâts Mountains, and designed two great inclines ascending mountains more than 2,000 feet high — the [[Bhore Ghat Railway Construction|Bhore Ghat]] and the [[Thal Ghat Railway Construction|Thul Ghat]].
*1852; the surveys were begun, and four years were spent in surveying the [[Bhore Ghat Railway Construction|Bhore Ghat]].
*1855 he became a magistrate; in 1857 a commissioner of the Bombay Municipal Board, and in 1858 a member of the Senate of Bombay University.
*1856; with his health failing, Berkley returned to England, but revisited India to see his cherished work on the [[Bhore Ghat Railway Construction|Bhore Ghat]] fully developed. Compelled, however, by ill-health to leave India, he returned to England in April 1861, but his constitution was undermined by hard work in a tropical climate, and he died in 1862 at the comparatively early age of 42.
*Berkley remained as Chief Engineer, up to 1862 and during his leadership GIP lines were extended to [[Jalgaon]] in Northeast and [[Sholapur]] in the Southeast direction.
==Historical books online==
