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5 unusual facts about Bowman Malcolm


Bowman Malcolm

Other professional affiliations included the Association of Railway and Locomotive Engineers and the Permanent Way Institution.

In this role he directed the construction and rebuilding of locomotives, coaches and goods wagons and the introduction of the von Borries two-cylinder compound locomotive to the BNCR.

Two-cylinder von Borries compound locomotives had been performing sterling service on express trains in Prussia.

Thomas Worsdell had followed up the idea on the Great Eastern and North Eastern railways in England and Bowman Malcolm was to bring it to Ireland.

NCC Class B3

These had been built by Beyer, Peacock and Company in the 1890s to the design of the BNCR Locomotive Engineer Bowman Malcolm.



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