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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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on 23 October 1851. After the exhibition they were employed by the
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Consulting Ltd: Footprints on a Global Landscape
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682:Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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224:locomotive, which he drove in the
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924:"Biographies of Civil Engineers"
901:"Some Engineering Reminiscences"
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980:Oil portrait of Sir Charles Fox
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