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James Allan Bell

1844 - ?

Railway engineer. Born in Portobello (Edinburgh). Bell worked on the Berwick-upon-Tweed - Edinburgh - Glasgow railway routes. He is remembered for building the line to link to the new Forth Bridge and, in Edinburgh, the Haymarket Tunnel and the tunnel under the Mound.


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