Frederick Walton (engineer)

Frederick Thomas Granville Walton CIE, M. Inst C.E., Telford Medal, (1840-1925) was a British railway engineer in India.

[1] Walton studied under Richard Johnson, chief civil engineer of the Great Northern Railways.

Walton then moved to India and worked for the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Company from 1868 to 1888.

Walton was also responsible for the construction of significant bridges at Wainganga, Bareilly, Moradabad, and Kosi Rampur.

[2] Walton's bridge-building activities caught the attention of the author Rudyard Kipling, who it is believed used him as one of the inspirations for his character "Findlayson" in his story, The Bridge Builders.

[1] Walton was the uncle of William Beckett, another Indian bridge and railway engineer.