biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1840–1912)
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| biography:
| Locomotive engineer, born in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, SW Scotland, UK. The chief mechanical engineer of the London & South Western Railway from 1905, he made his reputation in Scotland in 1876–8 with the 4–4–0 ‘Abbotsford’ class, examples of which were still running in the 1960s. |
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