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2 unusual facts about James McConnell


Locomotive No. 1

Locomotive No. 1 is the only locomotive designed by James McConnell to have been preserved.

Wolverton railway works

In 1846 the London & Birmingham became part of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR); Bury resigned in 1847 and was succeeded by James E. McConnell as Locomotive Superintendent of the LNWR Southern Division.


Francis Trevithick

His opposite number on the Southern Division (formerly the London & Birmingham Railway), was Edward Bury until his resignation in 1847, and from March in that year J. E. McConnell.


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