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unusual facts about Chief Mechanical Engineer



Clewer Park

It was modified and eventually bought by Sir Daniel Gooch, the 19th century industrialist, railway engineer and engineer responsible for the first transatlantic cables.

Feltham marshalling yard

In 1921 Robert Urie, the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LSWR introduced four large 4-8-0 shunting tank locomotives of the G16 class specifically to operate the yard, and five similar H16 class of 4-6-2T to undertake the transfer freight workings from Feltham.

Herbert William Garratt

Garratt transferred to the Argentine Central Railway in 1889, where he became Locomotive Superintendent in 1892, and between 1900 and 1906 he worked for railways in Cuba, Lagos, and Lima (Peru).

SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes

The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as Light Pacifics or informally as Spam Cans, are air-smoothed 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by its Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid.


see also

Alfred Hill

Alfred John Hill (1862–1927), Chief Mechanical Engineer at the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway, 1912–1922

Eastleigh Works

In 1903, the Chief Mechanical Engineer, Dugald Drummond oversaw the construction of a large motive power depot in the town replacing the existing maintenance and repair shops at Northam, Southampton.

Hay Frederick Donaldson

Alongside his latter two projects, he was based as Chief Mechanical Engineer at the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich, from 1889 to 1903, during which period he also served as its Deputy Director-General in 1898-99.

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

In 1926 he became Chairman of the LMS and was instrumental in getting William Stanier appointed in 1932 as Chief Mechanical Engineer to resolve the locomotive problems of the Company.

Maunsell

Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Southern Railway

South African Class 16E 4-6-2

The Class 16E 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive was designed by A.G. Watson, the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1929 to 1936, and built by Henschel and Son in Kassel, Germany.

Stanier

William Stanier (1876–1965), Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway

Thomas Hogg

Thomas Hogg (MR&LE) (1808–1881), English-born chief mechanical engineer for the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, the first railroad in Ohio