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Robert Richard Gales

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'''Robert Richard Gales'''.Trained at [[Royal Indian Engineering College]], Cooper’s Hill, Surrey England
 
Appointed to [[Public Works Department]], 1886, Assistant Engineer <ref name=Ind1905>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBS.PA499 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 499 (pdf page 462)] Retrieved on 16 Jul 2016</ref>.
==Railway Achievements==
*1886, posted to [[State Railways]] <refname=Ind1905/>. *1887-95, [[North Western Railway]] Survey and construction work <ref name=GG1922>[httpshttp://playwww.gracesguide.googleco.comuk/books1922_Who's_Who_In_Engineering:_Name_G Grace's Guide "Who's Who 1922"]; Retrieved 16 Jul 2016</reader?idref>.*1895-1900, [[North Western Railway]] Assistant Manager and [[East Coast State Railway]]; and Deputy Manager [[Eastern Bengal State Railway]] <ref name=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&printsecGG1922/>.*1896, Promoted Executive Engineer <ref name=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en_GB&pg=GBSInd1905/>.PA499 Google Books " India List *1901-05, [[Curzon Bridge, Allahabad]] Executive Engineer and Engineer-in-Chief, see 'References' <ref>[https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoShowDescs.asp?CollID=852 The British Library India Office ListRecords Photograph shelfmark 430/58 "The Curzon Bridge" carries the following description:- ''The Curzon Bridge over the River Ganges at Allahabad. 15 spans of 200 feet. Started 8th November 1902. Opened for Railway Traffic 15th June 1905. Opened for Road Traffic 20th December 1905'. Above this in the top corner is the note: 'With R.R. Gale's compliments'. Print 1 is a portrait of Gale, the Engineer-in-Chief, and his assistants and the remaining photographs provide a chronological record of the bridge's construction from December 1902 to December 1905" page 499 (pdf page 462).''] ; Retrieved on 18 May 16 Jul 2016</ref>.*1905-08, [[Public Works DepartmentBombay-Sind Connection Railway]]Survey Engineer-in-Chief; 1886and [[Nilgiri Mountain Railway]] Coonoor-Ootacamund extension Engineer-in-Chief <ref name=GG1922/>. *1909-15, Sara Ghat Bridge, Assistant Engineer -in-Chief, when completed the bridge was inaugerated as the '[[Hardinge Bridge]]' and posted to formed a vital link in the [[:Category:State RailwaysEastern Bengal Railway|Eastern Bengal State RailwaysRailway]]. This was a major engineering challenge as fully described in the 'The Engineer' of October 1914 <ref>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/d/d9/Er19141002.pdf The Engineer October 1914, pages 316-318- "Bridge over the Lower Ganges" reproduced by Grace's Guide]; 1873 Retrieved 16 Jul 2016</ref> *Promoted Executive 1915-17, [[Railway Board]] Chief Engineer<ref name=GG1922/>*1917-19, [[North Western Railway]](NWR) Agent<ref name=GG1939>[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1939_Who's_Who_In_Engineering:_Name_G Grace's Guide "Who's Who 1939"]; 1896Retrieved 16 Jul 2016</ref>.*1919-37, Partner in Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, Consulting Engineers, London.*1937 Retired 
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