Misplaced Pages

Great Western Railway

Engineer to the Great Western Railway

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1833-1837)

Locomotive Superintendent

• Daniel Gooch (1837–1864)
• Joseph Armstrong (1864–1877)
• William Dean (1877–1902)
• George Jackson Churchward (1902–1915)

Chief Mechanical Engineer

• George Jackson Churchward (1915–1921)
• Charles Collett (1922–1941)
• Frederick Hawksworth (1941–1947)

Northern Division Locomotive Superintendent

• Joseph Armstrong (1854–1864)
• George Armstrong (1864–1892)

British Railways (Western Region)

Mechanical and Electrical Engineer

• Kenneth J Cook (1950–1951)
• Robert A Smeddle (1951–?)

Constituent companies

Birkenhead Railway

• John Dixon
• T A Yarrow
• Rendell
• William Bragge
• George Douglas (1851–1860)

Bristol and Exeter Railway

• Charles Gregory (1849–1850) (Chief Engineer)
• James Pearson (1850–1875)

Cornwall Minerals Railway

• Miles Constatine

Llanelly Railway

• Joseph Hepburn
• Robert Hepburn

Llynvi and Ogmore Railway

• J Routledge

Monmouthshire Railway

• W Craig (1849–1854)
• R Laybourne (1854–1868)
• H Appleby (1868–1875)

Rhymney Railway

• Thomas Clements (1858–1862)
• Matthew Mordue (1862–1863)
• John Kendall (1863–1869)
• John Canty (1869–1884)
• Richard Jenkins (1884–1906)
• Charles T. Hurry Riches (1906-1922)

Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway

• William Marlow (1849–1853)
• Edmund Petre
• Joseph Armstrong

Shrewsbury and Chester Railway

• A M Ross (Engineer)
• Thomas Truss (Carriage Superintendent)
• Edward Jeffreys
• Joseph Armstrong (1853–1854)

South Devon Railway;

• Frederick Gooch (1850–1864)
• Joseph Wright (1864–1876)

Taff Vale Railway

• B. S. Fisher (1869–1873)
• Tom Hurry Riches (1873-1911)
• John Cameron (1911–1922)

Vale of Neath Railway

• Joshua Williams (1851–1865) (General Manager)

West Cornwall Railway

• Skater
• H Appleby
• Joseph Wright (South Devon Railway Locomotive Superintendent)

West Midland Railway

• Edward Wilson (1860–1863)

Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway

• Mark Carr (1854–1858)
• Alexander McDonnell (1858–1860)

Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway

• David Joy (1852–1856)
• Frederic Haward (1856–1857)
• Edward Wilson (1857–1860)

References

• Allen, Cecil J (1948). British Railway Locomotives. Ian Allan.
• MacDermot, E T (1927). History of the Great Western Railway, volume I 1833–1863. London: Great Western Railway.
• MacDermot, E T (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, volume II 1863–1921. London: Great Western Railway.
• The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part 3: Absorbed Engines 1854–1921. The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. 1956.
• Swindon Steam 1921–1951. Ian Allan. 1974.

v t e Great Western Railway
Main routes	Main line Badminton line South Wales Main Line Reading–Taunton line West Wales Bristol–Exeter line South Devon main line Cornish Main Line
Related companies	Constituent companies Joint ownership Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway Quakers Yard and Merthyr Railway West London Railway
Locomotives	All locomotives Absorbed Broad gauge Names Numbering and class naming Power/weight classification Standard 2-cylinder classes Oil burning 0-4-0ST 0-6-0PT 0-6-2T Steam rail motors Diesel railcars Diesel shunters
Works and depots	Swindon Wolverhampton Bath Westmoreland Road Birkenhead Mollington Street Bristol Barton Hill Bath Road St Philip's Marsh Cardiff Canton Cathays Didcot Exeter Gloucester Newport Ebbw Junction Old Oak Common Penzance Plymouth Laira Reading Shrewsbury Tyseley
Train services	The Bristolian Cambrian Coast Express Cheltenham Spa Express The Cornishman Cornish Riviera Express Flying Dutchman Torbay Express
Rolling stock	Coaches Autocoach Super Saloons Wagons Siphon Toad Containers Telegraphic codes
People	Chairmen Chief Mechanical Engineers
Canals	Bridgwater and Taunton Grand Western Kennet and Avon Monmouthshire and Brecon Stourbridge Extension Stover Stratford-upon-Avon Swansea
Other	Accidents Gauge War Heritage sites Museums Swindon Coleford Llanelli riots of 1911 Middle Circle Pagoda platform shelter Paintings The Railway Station Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Road services Ships Bertha (drag boat) War Memorial
• Category:Great Western Railway

• Great Western Railway people
• British railway mechanical engineers
• British railway-related lists