9,628
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Railway Achievements: 'Chak-Nizam Bridge' info and link added
==Railway Achievements==
*Engineer-in-Charge of survey of Rohri-Sukkur area to bridge River Indus. His propsal to build a 650 feet (200M) long suspension bridge was not adopted. ''It was not until that the [[Alexander Meadows Rendel]] design was adopted becoming the [[Lansdowne Bridge]] when finally opened in 1889.''
*Indus Valley State Railway, 1880, Engineer-in-Chief <ref name=name/>.
*[[Sind-Sagar Railway]], Engineer-in-Chief <ref name=name/>, which included the construction of the [[Chak-Nizam Bridge]] <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IcGwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=Sind-Sagar+Railway&source=bl&ots=YG60t7pX5D&sig=KmrjM8ls0tWpKlm1ls37RkbFfFE&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt2syilPLNAhWPSxoKHU8UCjQQ6AEIWzAJ#v=onepage&q=Sind-Sagar%20Railway&f=false Google Books "Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88" by Rudyard Kipling, pages 215-218]; Retrieved on 15 Jul 2016</ref>. .*[[MuskhafMushkaf-Bolan Railway]], Engineer-in-Chief <ref name=name/>.
*Promoted to Superintending Engineer, 1890 <ref name=name/>.
*[[Western Bengal Railway Survey]], 1890, Superintending Engineer <ref>"India Civil List" 1890, page 40</ref>
