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James Ramsay
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James Ramsay
Joined the Public Works Department, 1868; Executive Engineer, 1871 [1].
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 [1].
- Sind-Sagar Railway, Engineer-in-Chief [1], which included the construction of the Chak-Nizam Bridge [2]. .
- Mushkaf-Bolan Railway, Engineer-in-Chief [1].
- Promoted to Superintending Engineer, 1890 [1].
- Western Bengal Railway Survey, 1890, Superintending Engineer [3]
- Promoted to Chief Engineer, 1893 [1].
- Retired, 1894 [1].
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 595 (pdf page 558) Retrieved on 21 May 2016
- ↑ Google Books "Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88" by Rudyard Kipling, pages 215-218; Retrieved on 15 Jul 2016
- ↑ "India Civil List" 1890, page 40