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he constructed the first narrow-gauge line in India, and later constructed narrow-gauge lines in other parts of the world. Fox and Sons engineered the complex scheme of bridges and high-level lines at
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834:"Windsor-Castle, October 23, 1851"
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497:London, Chatham and Dover Railway
913:"Biographies of Civil Engineers"
890:"Some Engineering Reminiscences"
501:London and South Western Railway
219:Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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969:Oil portrait of Sir Charles Fox
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