1823
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Employed as engineer by Thomas Grainger, Edinburgh
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1824-26
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Working with Grainger on Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway
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1825
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Goes into partnership with Thomas Grainger
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1826-28
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Ballochney Railway, with Grainger
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1826-31
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Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway, with Grainger
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1828
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Hopetoun House land survey and estate plan, with Grainger
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1829-33
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Wishaw & Coltness Railway, with Grainger
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1830
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Polloc & Govan Railway, with Grainger
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1831
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Jedburgh to Whitelee toll road for Roxburghshire Turnpike Trust, with Grainger
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1835-37
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Paisley & Renfrew Railway, with Grainger
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1835-38
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Engineer to the Dundee & Arbroath Railway
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1837
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Proposal for a railway from Montrose to Brechin, with Grainger
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1837
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Linlithgow Palace and parkland reports
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1837
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Blackness Castle and lands reports
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1837-43
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Engineer to the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway, designs locomotives for it (12 built)
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1838
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Plans for improvements to Arbroath Harbour, with Grainger
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1838-42
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Engineer to Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway, has a locomotive named after him (Miller, 1848)
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1842
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Haymarket Station, Edinburgh
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1839-41
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Almond Valley Viaduct ... Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway
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1839-42
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Winchburgh Tunnel ... Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway
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1840-42
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Cowlairs Incline and Queen Street Station (Glasgow) ... Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway
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1844-46
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North British Railway and branch to Haddington
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1845-47
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North British Railway, Edinburgh to Hawick
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1845-47
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Working on Dundee & Perth Railway but resigned before construction
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1845-50
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Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway, Polmont to Larbert
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1845
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Puts plans to Parliament for more than 2,400km of railway (November)
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1845
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Partnership with Grainger dissolved
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1846
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Dunglass Viaduct, East Linton Bridge and Waverley Station (Edinburgh), North British Railway
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1846-47
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Directs upgrading of Kilmarnock & Troon Railway, which becomes part of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway
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1846-48
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Ballochmyle Viaduct ... Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway — Cumnock extension (Glasgow & South Western Railway from 1850)
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1846-49
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Engineer to Glasgow, Dumfries & Carlisle Railway, thereafter consultant (to 1850)
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1846-49
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Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway extension to Cumnock
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1846-50
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North British Railway branch to Kelso
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1847
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Adds footways to Glenesk Bridge ... North British Railway
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1847
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Timber viaduct at Laigh Milton, near Kilmarnock
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1847-48
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Carron Viaduct ... Glasgow, Dumfries & Carlisle Railway
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1848
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Kilmarnock Viaduct ... Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway — Cumnock extension
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1848
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Dumfries Station ... Glasgow, Dumfries & Carlisle Railway
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1848-50
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Drumlanrig Tunnel ... Glasgow, Dumfries & Carlisle Railway
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1849-50
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Roxburgh (Teviot) Viaduct ... North British Railway
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1850
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Lugar Water Viaduct ... Glasgow & South Western Railway
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1850
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Retires, aged 45
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1852
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Unsuccessfully stands for Parliament (seat: Stirling Burghs)
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1865
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Unsuccessfully stands for Parliament (seat: Edinburgh)
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1868-74
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Elected to Parliament (Liberal, Edinburgh with Duncan McLaren)
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