James Fraser (railways administrator)

(20 August 1861[1] – 28 July 1936) was an Australian-born Chief Commissioner of New South Wales railways from 1917 to 1929.

[1] Fraser was born in Braidwood, New South Wales, and educated at Sydney Grammar School.

[citation needed] He joined the railways as a cadet draftsman[2] or civil engineer,[3] and in 1903 succeeded Thomas Rhodes Firth, his father-in-law, as engineer-in-chief for existing lines.

[3] 1931 he was appointed to the Transport Coordination Board,[3] which was dissolved in 1932 after the collapse of the Lang Government.

[citation needed] He died at his home "Arnprior", Avon Road, Pymble, at the age of 74 after a year suffering from tuberculosis.