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Molesworth was born in Millbrook, Hampshire and was the son of John Edward Nassau Molesworth, Vicar of Rochdale and was the great grandson of Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth.
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Molesworth was born in Millbrook, Hampshire and was the son of John Edward Nassau Molesworth, Vicar of Rochdale and was the great grandson of Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth.
Molesworth was educated at the College for Civil Engineers at Putney, apprenticed under Mr Dockray in the London and North Western Railway, and under Sir William Fairbairn at Manchester.
Early years
He became a chief assistant engineer of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, but soon resigned to conduct the constructions at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, during the Crimean War. He returned to London for a number of years, worked at his profession, then went to Ceylon in 1859 and in 1862 became chief engineer of the government railways in Ceylon. From 1871 to 1889 he was consulting engineer to the Indian government with regard to State railways.
Molesworth was consulted on a number of occasions on the suitability of adopting a narrow gauge rather than a broad one.
He was generally against the narrow gauge as he regarded the cost savings as illusary. His broad gauge line to Kandy is proof that this gauge is practicable in steep mountains.
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