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<blockquote>+Sake River+ ''No information found on the location of this river or the camp''</blockquote>
<blockquote>+Trowa Viaduct+ ''The location not found for this Viaduct, a Trowa river or town''</blockquote>
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==Railway Achievements==
*1857, Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR), Assistant Engineer to [[Robert W Graham]] <ref name=grace>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Robert_Maitland_Brereton Grace's Guide "Robert Maitland Brereton"] Retrieved on 25 Jun 2016</ref>.
*1858 January, Brereton escaped death twice when his camp at the +'Sake River+ ' near [[Nandgaon]] was attacked and looted by a band of 500 Bhils, during the unrest associated with the [[Indian Mutiny]] <ref name=grace/><ref name=Brereton>[https://archive. org/details/reminiscencesofo00brer "Reminiscences of an old English civil engineer, 1858-1908" by Robert Maitland Brereton page 8 and pages 49-53] Retrieved on 1 Jul 2016</ref> *Brereton was eventually appointed GIPR Chief Engineer and undertook to complete the strategic connection across the continent. This was accomplished in 1870, ahead of the promised schedule <ref name=grace/>.
*The [[Allahabad-Jubbulpore line|Allahabad-Jabalpur]] branch line of the [[East Indian Railway]] (EIR) had been opened in June 1867 <ref name=wiki/>.
*1870, Brereton was responsible for linking the GIPR to the EIR with the GIPR, resulting in a combined network of 6,400 km (4,000 mi). Hence it became possible to travel directly from Bombay to Calcutta <ref name=wiki/>.
*1870, Opening the railway from Bombay to Calcutta in March 1870, the Viceroy of India said, "...it may happen that a thousand years hence, Mr. Brereton's ghost may still hover with anxious solicitude over the unbroken piers of the +Trowa Viaduct+..."<ref name=grace/>(after inaugeration in 1870 known as the [[Alfred Viaduct]]).
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