Civil engineers who planned and built railways and underground railways, including the Polish engineer who built the highest railway of its time in the Peruvian Andes, the Indian engineer who built the Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro and the Japanese engineer who founded the first underground railway in the Orient. A person belongs here when the cited article credits the person with building a railway, a metro or an underground railway.
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Henri Maus (Wikipedia)
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From 1835 he worked on Belgian railways, and designed the inclined elevator that enabled trains from Liège to climb 110 metres over a distance of 4.3 kilometres to Ans on the plateau above the city, making rail links from Liège to Brussels and Antwerp practicable.
Henry Robinson Palmer (Wikipedia)
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Henry Robinson Palmer (13 August 1793-12 September 1844) was an English civil engineer who designed the world's second monorail and the first elevated railway.
John Shae Perring (Grace's Guide)
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he was appointed engineer of the Cairo and Suez Railway
Karl Etzel (Wikipedia)
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Karl von Etzel (old spelling Carl von Etzel; 6 January 1812-2 May 1865) was a German railway engineer and architect.
Ernest Malinowski (Wikipedia)
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best known for constructing the world's highest railway at the time
E. Sreedharan (Wikipedia)
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building the Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro
Wikipedia: Furuichi Kōi
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founding president of the Tokyo Underground Railway
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