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Wigtownshire [1] Nationality. British. Occupation. Engineer. Engineering career. Discipline. Mechanical engineering. Thomas Wheatley (1821–1883) was an English mechanical engineer who worked for several British railway companies and rose to become a Locomotive Superintendent at the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and the North British ...
Harold Holcroft (12 February 1882 – 15 February 1973) was an English railway and mechanical engineer who worked for the Great Western Railway (GWR), the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) and the Southern Railway (SR). At the GWR, Holcroft helped the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME), George Jackson Churchward, design the 4300 class 2-6-0 ...
August 21 – The first California Southern Railroad train from National City reaches Colton, California. [2] [5] August 23 – The first Canadian Pacific Railway train arrives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. August 24 – The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway leases the 97 mile (156 km) long Fort Wayne, Jackson and Saginaw Railroad.
Locomotive engineer from 1 January 1912 to 31 December 1922. Born in 1882, Lawson Billinton had worked his way up the LBSCR company starting under his father Robert Billinton, progressing through the drawing office before becoming an inspector of materials, then firstly Assistant, then District Locomotive Superintendent. He died in November 1954.
Lawson Butzkopfski Billinton (1882-1954) the Locomotive Engineer of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. 1882 Born in Brighton the third son of Robert John Billinton. His mother was of Polish origin and his middle name Butzkopfski (sometimes spelled Boskovsky) was her family name. He became a pupil of his father at Brighton works in ...
1801-1882, locomotive engineer; railway engineer, British; English ... locomotive engineer, German-born; British. Beyer, Charles Frederick ... railway engineer ...
Harold Holcroft, was a railway engineer, born in Wolverhampton on the 12th of February 1882. His interest in railways, especially in locomotives, began at an early age. This was in part thanks to the inspiration of family friend Joe Armstrong, son of Joseph Armstrong, who would visit when Holcroft was growing up. At the time, Armstrong was the assistant to the Chief Locomotive Engineer at the ...
