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'''Robert Atwell Way''' was trained at the [[Royal Indian Engineering College]], Cooper’s Hill, Surrey England.
*[[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.PA605 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 642 (pdf page 605 )] Retrieved on 10 May 2016</ref>.
==Railway Acheivements==
*[[:Category:State Railways|State Railways]] posted from PWD; 1880, Executive Engineer<ref name=name/>.
*[[Bengal and North-Western Railway]] Company; 1884, on loan<ref name=name/>.
*[[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]] Company; 1887, on loan<ref name=name/>.
*[[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<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/indianengineerin01calcuoft/indianengineerin01calcuoft_djvu.txt “ Indian Engineering” 19 March 1887, pages 146, 174”]; Retrieved on 12 May 2016</ref>.
*[[Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway]] Company; 1889, on loan<ref name=name/>.
*[[Chittagong-Akyab-Minhla Railway Survey]]; 1893 and promoted to Superintending Engineer, 1896<ref name=name/>.
*Appointed by the [[Government of India]] to investigate several railway projects<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/RailwayProjects/Railway "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</ref>.
**[[Assam-Burma Connection Railway Project|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.
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Railway People|Way, Robert Atwell]]
[[Category:People|Way, Robert Atwell]]
*[[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.PA605 Google Books " India List and India Office List, 1905" page 642 (pdf page 605 )] Retrieved on 10 May 2016</ref>.
==Railway Acheivements==
*[[:Category:State Railways|State Railways]] posted from PWD; 1880, Executive Engineer<ref name=name/>.
*[[Bengal and North-Western Railway]] Company; 1884, on loan<ref name=name/>.
*[[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]] Company; 1887, on loan<ref name=name/>.
*[[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<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/indianengineerin01calcuoft/indianengineerin01calcuoft_djvu.txt “ Indian Engineering” 19 March 1887, pages 146, 174”]; Retrieved on 12 May 2016</ref>.
*[[Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway]] Company; 1889, on loan<ref name=name/>.
*[[Chittagong-Akyab-Minhla Railway Survey]]; 1893 and promoted to Superintending Engineer, 1896<ref name=name/>.
*Appointed by the [[Government of India]] to investigate several railway projects<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/RailwayProjects/Railway "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</ref>.
**[[Assam-Burma Connection Railway Project|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.
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Railway People|Way, Robert Atwell]]
[[Category:People|Way, Robert Atwell]]
