It h(a» been found necessary to reconstruct this bridge on a new design with piers <°f iron cylinders filled with concrete

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* It h(a» been found necessary to reconstruct this bridge on a new design with piers <°f iron cylinders filled with concrete of 139 feet, one of 79 feet, and one of 72 feet;

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A.ILWAYS OF INDIA:
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR
RISE, PROGRESS, AND CONSTRUCTION.
WRITTEN WITH THE AID 01'
THE RECORDS OF TH E IN D IA OFFICE.
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EDWARD DAVIDSON, Ca p t a in , R.E.,
(late) deputy consulting engineer, for railways to the government of
BENGAL.
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“ Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range;
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change,
Though the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day j 
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."
Tennyson.
L O N D O N :
E. & E. N. SPON, 48, CHARING CROSS.
1868.
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LONDON; PRINTED BY W. OLQWISS AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

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P R E F A C E .
the ,Uailway« of India are proving themselves to be 
rughty agencies for the improvement of that empire, 
he Author hopes that this attempt to give an account 
J the ir rise and progress may be interesting to the 
many who have at heart the future welfare of India, 
f| that as a record of facts, it may possess a certain 
ie for the professional and general public.
Hie authorities for the statements in the following 
<ages are to be found scattered through almost innumert 
ible reports and records printed and in manuscript;
;nd the Author has thought it better not to quote in 
ja°h instance the particular paper referred to (had he 
done so the references would have been voluminous and 
intricate, and after all not very useful), hut has pre­
ferred rather to use freely all 'the information obtainable, 
condensing or expanding it as seemed best to suit his 
purpose. 
He desires, however, here to express his 
obligations to all by whose writings or papers he has 
been assisted or guided.
To Sir Charles Wood (Lord Halifax), late Secretary 
State for India, his cordial thanks are due for allowing 
n access to the records of the India Office; and to 
neral W. Erskine Baker, Royal (Bengal) Engineers,

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for aid in procuring that admission, and lor kind 
encouragement to the idea ol this work when it was 
first commenced. Mr. Noad, the Managing Director of 
the Bast Indian Railway Company, has always been 
most obliging in supplying documents; and Mr. A. M 
Eendel, C.E., the Consulting Engineer to the East Indian 
Railway Company, has given much valuable informa­
tion, especially regarding the works on the chord line 
of the East Indian Railway. He is much obliged also 
to the Secretaries- of the Great Indian Peninsulit and 
Madras Railway Companies; and more especially ts he 
indebted to G. P. Thompson, Esq., the Assistant-S- uro- 
tary in the Railway Department of the India Office, 
his. unwearied courtesy in meeting the many requ: 
tions made for papers and records often requiring muo
trouble and search to find.
For dimensions and descriptions of the works on the 
different lines of railway, the Author has relied upon 
the reports and letters of the Chief Engineers of the 
East Indian Railway, Messrs. Turnbull, Power, and 
Sibley; of the Great Indian Peninsula, Messrs. Berkeley 
and Graham; of the Madras, Messrs. Bruce and Heppel;
- of the Bombay and Barodah, Colonel Kennedy and 
Mr. Horde ; of the Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, Messrs. 
Brunton and Harrison; of the Eastern Bengal Railway,
Mr. Purdon; of the Great Southern, Mr. Carr; and of 
the Calcutta and Mutlah, Messrs. Bolden and Wall.
He has also had the advan

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