William Frederick Faviell

[1] Later, he decided to move his interests overseas and built railways in India, Ceylon and South Africa.

Back in England, he bought the estate of Down Place in the Surrey where he lived with his wife Sarah and their six children until 1890.

Although the idea came in 1843 from the chief engineer of the Bombay Government G. T. Clark, the construction of the 15.75-mile route began 7 years after under the direction of Faviell.

Given the topography of the area on the crest of the Western Ghat mountain ranges, about 42,000 workers had to travel 15–20 miles each day carrying an estimated 6,296,061 cubic yards of earthwork on their heads.

[6] His last foreign contract was in South Africa in 1877, where he undertook to extend the Port Elizabeth railway, then only 67 miles long, into the interior in the direction of Cradock and Graaff-Reinet.