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Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Pennington, Myles, 1814-1898
Subjects: Railroads Canals
Publisher: Toronto : Williamson
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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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

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