Alice Tredwell

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 Mumbai and Pune in 1863.

Alice Pickering was born in Leek, Staffordshire, in 1823. She married Solomon Tredwell, a railway contractor, in Leeds in 1846.

Alice Tredwell took up the contract with a remarkable "degree of spirit and judgment",

Tredwell photographed much of the Bhor Ghat landscape and the development of the line.

Adamson and Clowser continued to work for Tredwell's company, extending the Peninsular railway towards Madras, constructing the section between Sholapur and Gulbarga.

Alice Tredwell returned to England in 1860. She had inherited £70,000 from her husband.

Tredwell died in Ryde on the Isle of Wight on 14 June 1867.