Identifier: railwaysotherway00penn (find matches)
Title: Railways and other ways: being reminiscences of canal and railway life during a period of sixty-seven years; with characteristic sketches of canal and railway men, early tram roads and railways, steamboats and ocean steamships, the electric telegraph and Atlantic cable, Canada and its railways, trade and commerce
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Pennington, Myles, b. 1814
Subjects: Railroads -- Canada Canals -- Canada
Publisher: Toronto : Williamson & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he has held and theimportant engineering and other works he has been engaged infor about thirty-eight years in England, the Cape of Good Hope,Costa Rica, and the Dominion of Canada. Mr. Wragge was born in Worcestershire, England, in 1837.He was educated at Eossall. In 1854 he became a pupil ofMessrs. Fox, Henderson & Co., at their works, Smethwick, nearBirmingham. In 1859 he was appointed District Engineer onthe Cape Town & Welhngton Eailway, Cape of Good Hope,and remained in that position until 1862, when he returnedto England. In 1863 he was employed as an Assistant Engi-neer on the London, Chatham & Dover Eailway. In 1864 hewas appointed Eesident Engineer in charge of the Victoriaand Battersea Improvements, which works were carried outfor the London, Chatham & Dover, London, Brighton & SouthCoast, and London & South Western Eailways by Mr. Wragge,under the late Sir Charles Fox, who was Chief Engineer.These works included the widening of the existing Victoria
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Directors and Managers of G. T. B. 159 Bridge over the Thames, which was widened from 30 feet to 132feet 6 inches, being now wide enough for 10 lines of rails, and is,probabl)^ still, the widest bridge in the world for its length,nearly 1,000 feet. In 1867-8 and part of 69 Mr. Wragge was inpractice in London as a Civil Engineer, during which time,among other employments, he was Engineer of the Waterloo &Whitehall Eailway, and went to Costa Eica to make a survey ofa line of railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific for the Govern-ment of that country. In September, 1869, he arrived in Canada as Chief Engineerof the Toronto, Grey & Bruce and Toronto & Nipissing Railways(his friend Sir Charles Fox, together with his son, now SirDouglas Fox, being the Consulting Engineer), and in suchcapacity constructed the line of the former railway from Torontoto Owen Sound, and from Orangeville to Teeswater, a total mile-age of 191 miles, and of the Toronto & Nipissing Railway, 80miles.

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