Railway and Works Company Ltd

Registered 1891. Dissolved <1932. Company number 34930. An international contracting company based in England.
Directors: Walter J. Cutbill (Chairman), Richard W. Wright (Managing Director), Edmund Davis, Percy F. G. Lord, Company formed to take over the business of Perry, Cutbill, De Lungo & Co., who had carried out large Railway Contracts in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentine Republic, and South Africa, including the Pietermaritzburg to Ladysmith Railway. The construction Railways, Harbours, Floating Docks, Waterworks, &c. Jointly with R. W. Wright, Esq., they constructed the Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway, in South Africa, 285 kilometres in length, at a cost of £1,533,000. They also constructed for the Government of Trinidad a Floating Dock, and erected in Trinidad large Workshops fitted with the latest type of machinery for dealing with extensive alterations to Ships of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Service generally, and have recently constructed and equipped in Peru the Railway from Ancon to Sayan, with Branches to Chancay and to Huacho Port, a length of some 212 kilometres. Later engaged in Railway Surveys in Europe and the Colonies. g
Capital in shares of £10.