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*[[Public Works Department]](PWD); 1873, Assistant Engineer <ref name=name> [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA642 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 642 (pdf page 605 )] Retrieved on 10 May 2016</ref>. | *[[Public Works Department]](PWD); 1873, Assistant Engineer <ref name=name> [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA642 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 642 (pdf page 605 )] Retrieved on 10 May 2016</ref>. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:48, 23 May 2016
Robert Atwell Way was trained at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper’s Hill, Surrey England.
- Public Works Department(PWD); 1873, Assistant Engineer [1].
Railway Achievements
- State Railways posted from PWD; 1880, Executive Engineer[1].
- Bengal and North-Western Railway Company; 1884, on loan[1].
- Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company; 1887, on loan[1].
- Tirhoot State Railway(TSR); Executive Engineer in charge of the construction of the Gunduck Bridge completed in 1887 and consisted of 5 spans of 250 feet with a half mile viaduct on one bank of the river[2].
- Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway Company; 1889, on loan[1].
- Chittagong-Akyab-Minhla Railway Survey; 1893 and promoted to Superintending Engineer, 1896[1].
- Appointed by the Government of India to investigate several railway projects[3].
- Assam-Burma Connection Railway was surveyed by R A Way and reported in 1896 on three possible routes:-
- Coast Route - Chittagong on the Assam-Bengal Railway along the Arakan coast and over the An Pass to the Chindwin river in Burma;
- Manipur Route - From the neighbourhood of Lumding on the Assam-Bengal Railway, by way of Manipur, into tho Kubaw valley at Taromu, and thence, crossing the Chindwin river near Yuwa, to a junction with the Mu Valley Railway in Burma near Wuntho.
- Hukoig Valley Route - From Ledo on the Dibrugarh-Sadiya Railway in the north- east corner of Assam, via the Hukong Valley, to a junction with the Mu Valley Railway in the neighbourhood of Mogaung.
- Assam-Burma Connection Railway was surveyed by R A Way and reported in 1896 on three possible routes:-
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 642 (pdf page 605 ) Retrieved on 10 May 2016
- ↑ “ Indian Engineering” 19 March 1887, pages 146, 174”; Retrieved on 12 May 2016
- ↑ "Railway Board (1906) Histories of railway projects, including tramways, corrected up to 30th June 1906" Government Central Press, Simla. Archive.org Retrieved 12 May 2016
