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==Railway Achievements==
Biography from Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland - Furnivall, Willoughby Charles" <ref name=biog>[http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/bdoceigbai.58347.222 Institution of Civil Engineers "Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland - Furnivall, Willoughby Charles"]; Retrieved on 7 Jul 2016</ref>.
*c.1860, [[Scinde, Punjaub & Delhi Railway]](SP&DR), District Engineer in charge of construction under [[John Brunton]]. ''Note [[Scinde, Punjaub & Delhi Railway]] as stated the the biography did not exist until 1870.''
*1867, [[Public Works Department]](PWD), Furnivall joined the [[Railway Branch - PWD|Railway Branch]] of the PWD to construct the [[Rajputana State Railway]] following the decision to construct that as a State line. He was sucessively in charge of the [[Rajputana - Delhi District Railway|Delhi District]] and [[Rajputana - Agra District Railway|Agra District]] sections
*c.1874, [[Railway Branch - PWD]], with the completion of the [[Rajputana State Railway]] Furnivall became Under Secretary of the PWD [[Railway Branch - PWD|Railway Branch]] and then Joint Secretary to the Government of North West Provinces, in this position he was in charge of a number of locally administered State railways.
*[[Nizam's State Railway]](NSR), he was responsible for extensions to the NSR as well as its general management ''This would be in a 'on-loan from PWD' capacity''
*1890, Furnivall left India.
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