James R. Bell
James Richard Bell of Indian Government Railways (1895)
1858-1861 Apprenticed under John Gardner
1862 Completed his apprenticeship on the Merthyr and Abergavenny Railway
1862-4 Worked in Egypt
1865-7 Worked on the Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway
1868 Worked in Liverpool then went to India to join the P. W. D.
1870s Worked on various railway lines in India
1879 Member of Inst Civil Engineers, of Lukkur.