Civil and mechanical engineers who designed the first railways, locomotives and rail systems of Britain, Sweden and Japan. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the person an engineer, railway engineer or chief mechanical engineer. It excludes inventors and industrialists who built railway businesses. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Richard Beeching (Wikipedia)
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was a physicist and engineer who was chairman of British Railways
Wikipedia: George Stephenson
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George Stephenson (9 June 1781-12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer.
Wikipedia: Robert Stephenson
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Robert Stephenson , DCL (Hon. causa) (16 October 1803-12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives.
Wikipedia: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806-15 September 1859) was an English civil and marine engineer considered "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution", "perhaps the most eminent Victorian engineer", and one whose work "altered the lives of almost every person in Britain, and millions abroad".
Wikipedia: Nigel Gresley
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Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley (19 June 1876-5 April 1941) was a British railway engineer.
Wikipedia: Hideo Shima
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Hideo Shima (島 秀雄, Shima Hideo; 20 May 1901-18 March 1998) was a Japanese engineer and the driving force behind the building of the first bullet train (Shinkansen).
Charles Collett (Wikipedia)
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Charles Benjamin Collett (10 September 1871-5 April 1952) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway from 1922 to 1941.
Nils Ericson (Wikipedia)
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Friherre Nils Ericson (born Nils Ericsson; 31 January 1802-8 September 1870) was a Swedish mechanical engineer who built canals and railways in Sweden.
John Blenkinsop (Wikipedia)
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an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive
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