. The Street railway journal . Boghos Pacha Nubar Nelson Graburn J- Lumbroso PROMINENT EGYPTIAN ELECTRIC RAILWAY OFFICIALS ton merchant and financier. The general manager and chief en-gineer of the Alexandria & Ramleh Railway Company and theAlexandria Tramway Company is Mr. Nelson Graburn, M. I. E. is the son of the late Captain Marmaduke Graburn, R. N., ofMelton Hall, Barnaby, Lincolnshire, England. He was appointedto his present position in November, 1901, to carry out the trans-formation of the Alexandria & Ramleh Railway and to reorganizethe Tramway Company. Mr. Graburn served an appr
. The Street railway journal . Boghos Pacha Nubar Nelson Graburn J- Lumbroso PROMINENT EGYPTIAN ELECTRIC RAILWAY OFFICIALS ton merchant and financier. The general manager and chief en-gineer of the Alexandria & Ramleh Railway Company and theAlexandria Tramway Company is Mr. Nelson Graburn, M. I. E. is the son of the late Captain Marmaduke Graburn, R. N., ofMelton Hall, Barnaby, Lincolnshire, England. He was appointedto his present position in November, 1901, to carry out the trans-formation of the Alexandria & Ramleh Railway and to reorganizethe Tramway Company. Mr. Graburn served an apprenticeshipwith the Canadian Pacific Railway as a mechanical engineer from1881 to 1887, when he joined the Edison Illuminating Company,of Brooklyn, where he secured a practical training in electriclighting. He remained with that company until 1889, when hewent to the Thomson-Houston works at Lynn, Mass., to take astudents course in electric railway work. After completing thiscourse he was sent to Canada in the spring by
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