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English: Mr Wragge, civil engineer

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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interest as showing the different positions he has held and the
important engineering and other works he has been engaged in
for 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 Rossall. In 1854 he became a pupil of
Messrs. Fox, Henderson & Co., at their works, Smethwick, near
Birmingham. In 1859 he was appointed District Engineer on
the Cape Town & Wellington Railway, Cape of Good Hope,
and remained in that position until 1862, when he returned
to England. In 1863 he was employed as an Assistant Engi-
neer on the London, Chatham & Dover Railway. In 1864 he
was appointed Resident Engineer in charge of the Victoria
and Battersea Improvements, which works were carried out
for the London, Chatham & Dover, London, Brighton & South
Coast, and London & South Western Railways 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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Yours truly
E Wragge

Directors and Managers of G. T. B. 159

Bridge over the Thames, which was widened from 30 feet to 132
feet 6 inches, being now wide enough for 10 lines of rails, and is,
probably still, the widest bridge in the world for its length,
nearly 1,000 feet. In 1867-8 and part of 69 Mr. Wragge was in
practice in London as a Civil Engineer, during which time,
among other employments, he was Engineer of the Waterloo &
Whitehall Railway, and went to Costa Rica to make a survey of
a 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 Engineer
of the Toronto, Grey & Bruce and Toronto & Nipissing Railways
(his friend Sir Charles Fox, together with his son, now Sir
Douglas Fox, being the Consulting Engineer), and in such
capacity constructed the line of the former railway from Toronto
to Owen Sound, and from Orangeville to Teeswater, a total mile-
age of 191 miles, and of the Toronto & Nipissing Railway, 80
miles.

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