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[[File:Alice Tredwell railway contractor.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Alice Tredwell (1823-1867), contractor on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway]]
'''Alice Tredwell''' (née Pickering; 1823 – 14 June 1867) was an English railway contractor and photographer. She is best known for the completion of the [[Bhor Ghat]] section of the [[Great Indian Peninsular Railway]] line between [[Bombay|Mumbai]] and [[Poona|Pune]] in 1863.<ref name=grace>{{cite web|url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Alice_Tredwell|publisher=Grace's Guide to British Industrial History|title=Alice Tredwell|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref>

Alice Pickering was born in [[Leek, Staffordshire]], in 1823.<ref name=familytree>{{cite web|url=http://www.allen-family-tree.co.uk/solomon-tredwell.html|title=Solomon Tredwell|publisher=Instone Family Tree|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref> She married Solomon Tredwell, a railway contractor, in [[Leeds]] in 1846.<ref name=grace/> Awarded the construction of the Bhor Ghat section of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, Alice and Solomon arrived in India in 1859. Solomon died of dysentery or cholera within a month.<ref name="Wolmar2017">{{cite book|author=Christian Wolmar|title=Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bwErDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT53|year=2017|publisher=Atlantic Books|isbn=978-1-78239-766-3|page=53}}</ref><ref name="Wilson2016">{{cite book|author=Jon Wilson|title=India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHEQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP205|year=2016|publisher=Simon & Schuster UK|isbn=978-1-4711-0127-4|page=205}}</ref>

Alice Tredwell took up the contract with a remarkable "degree of spirit and judgment",<ref name="Wilson2016"/> assigning the Railway's engineers Swainston Adamson and George Louis Clowser to manage the construction. The construction was completed by 1863.<ref name=kerr>{{cite book|title=Engines of Change: The Railroads that Made India|author=Ian J. Kerr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ETIxCLujm30C&pg=PA45|page=45|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2007|isbn=978-0-275-98564-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Bombay Mail|newspaper=The Times|date=6 June 1864|page=10}}</ref>

Tredwell photographed much of the Bhor Ghat landscape and the development of the line.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=VADS|url=https://vads.ac.uk/results.php?cmd=search&words=alice+tredwell&mode=boolean&submit=search|accessdate=3 February 2018|title=Alice Tredwell}}</ref>

Adamson and Clowser continued to work for Tredwell's company, extending the Peninsular railway towards [[Madras]], constructing the section between [[Sholapur]] and [[Gulbarga]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Railway News and Joint Stock Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d3wqAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA377|volume=3|year=1865|page=377}}</ref>

Alice Tredwell returned to England in 1860. She had inherited £70,000 from her husband.<ref name="Wilson2016"/> Her only surviving daughter Alice Martha Elizabeth got married in 1866.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Morning Post|location=London| date=11 January 1866|page= 8|title=Marriages|issue=28731}}</ref>

Tredwell died in Ryde on the [[Isle of Wight]] on 14 June 1867.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Illustrated London News|date=22 June 1867|page=618|issue=1432|title=Deaths}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|title=Alice Tredwell, deceased|date=17 August 1867| page=4|issue=25892}}</ref>

== External links==
* [https://vads.ac.uk/results.php?cmd=search&words=alice+tredwell&mode=boolean&submit=search Alice Tredwell's Photographs, VADS]

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