Waring Brothers was a British

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 company specialising in railway structures.

History

The Company was founded by Charles Waring, William Waring and Henry Waring in 1841 in York

York

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 as a civil engineering

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 business.

By 1853 the Company was working for the Central Peninsular Railway Company in Portugal

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It went on to complete numerous railway structures including three viaducts in Luxembourg

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 (including the Passerelle

Passerelle

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) and the station (but not the roof, which was tendered separately) of St Pancras in London

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Major projects

Major projects included:

• The Dorset Central Railway, completed in 1858
• The Ceylon Railway (ow known as Sri Lanka Railways
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  ), completed in 1859
• The Pernambuco, Recife and San Francisco Railway, completed in 1860
• The Sicily Railway, completed in 1862
• The East Indian Railway, completed in 1862
• The Bristol Port Railway, completed in 1863
• The Honduras Railway, completed in 1870
• The Uruguay Central Railway, completed in 1871
• The Central do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro
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  , 1884
• The Minas an Rio Railway,[Cruzeiro, São Paulo, Brasil] ,1884

Demise of the Company

Charles Waring went into politics as Member of Parliament

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 for Poole in 1865 after which time there were very few contracts entered into so it appears that the Company was wound up in the early 1870s.