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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 Railway (NBR).
Edward Fletcher (1807 – 21 December 1889) was an English engineer, and locomotive superintendent of the North Eastern Railway (NER). He was born at Elsdon in Northumberland.
Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid CBE (19 September 1882 – 25 April 1970) was a British railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation, developing many well-known locomotives.
Edward Fletcher. occupation: Locomotive engineer. Nationality: British. born in: Otterburn, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom. Apprentice to Robert Stephenson & Company/George Stephenson and helped with construction of Stephenson's Rocket and the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, drove Stephenson's locomotive 'Invicta' at its opening in ...
Henry Alfred Ivatt (1851-1923). Locomotive Engineer. Doncaster Works . Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway 1886-1911. Introduced the large engine policy culminating in the Atlantic class and the wide-firebox class. Patented the water scoop and built up crank-axle.
Railway engineer. Nationality: British. born in: Stoke Gabriel, Totnes, Devon, England, United Kingdom. George Jackson Churchward, born in 1857, had a keen mathematical flair, and in 1873 became a pupil of John Wright, the locomotive, carriage, and wagon superintendent of the South Devon Railway.
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occupation: Engineer. Nationality: British. born in: City of London, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Having been educated at Merchant Taylors School, London, from 1882 to 1887, Collett began his engineering career as a pupil of of Joshua Field of Maudslay, Son & Field.
