Norris Garrett Bell
Norris Garrett Bell (1860-1937)
1860 Born at Dundee the son of James Henderson Bell, a Linen Merchant.
Ed. Dundee High Sch., Edinburgh Collegiate and Edinburgh University.
Training: Wharrie, Colledge and Brand, Cons. Engrs., Glasgow.
1886 Married at Queensland to Agnes Black Walker
1910 Chief Engineer of the Queensland Government Railways
1915 Chief Commonwealth Railway Engineer, Australia.[1]
1922 Australian Commonwealth Rlys. Commissioner; Career: On completion of pupilage was in a Cons. Engr's Office in London and with Rly. Contractors in Scotland; charge of construction and maintenance of various sections of rly. in Queensland, Australia; appointed Principal Asst. to Chief Engr., then Deputy Chief Engr., and finally Chief Engr., with control of maintenance of 3,000 to 4,000 miles of opened lines, and constructed numerous new lines and extensions; in 1914 appointed Engr.-in-Chief to the Australian Commonwealth Government, and built the Trans Australian Rly. (1,051 miles in length) and a section of line in the Northern Territory. In 1917 appointed Commonwealth Rly. Commissioner. Address: 150, Flinder's Lane, Melbourne. T. A.: " Comrails, Melbourne."
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 10 April 1915