W.R. Galbraith

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William Robert Galbraith (1829-?) was a civil engineer in the United Kingdom during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was employed by the London and South Western Railway as a consulting engineer and later by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway which became known as London Underground's Bakerloo Line. He had a consulting company called Galbraith & Church.

His projects include:

• Kew railway bridge across the River Thames in London, built in 1864-1869 by the London and South Western Railway
• Newport Pagnell to Wolverton Branch Railway, W.R. Galbraith was director from 1871 and was mentioned in the 1870 Act of Parliament which authorised the building of the line as one of the creditors of the railway
• Meldon railway viaduct, built in 1874 by the London and South Western Railway across the West Okement river valley near Okehampton
• The Waterloo & City Line in London, opened 11 July 1898.
• The Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, opened in 1901
• The Bakerloo Line, built between 1898 and 1906
• Calstock railway viaduct across the Tamar valley, built ca. 1908