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Thomas Heywood (railway engineer)

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Thomas Edward Hett Heywood (29 November 1877 – 26 November 1953) was a British engineer. [1]

14 relations: Aberdeen, Cardiff, Chief mechanical engineer, Great North of Scotland Railway, History of rail transport in Myanmar, LNER Class D40, London and North Eastern Railway, Penarth, Railways Act 1921, Superheater, Taff Vale Railway, Tom Hurry Riches, William Pickersgill, 4-4-0.

Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Chief mechanical engineer

Chief mechanical engineer and locomotive superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock.

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Great North of Scotland Railway

The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR/GNoSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating in the north-east of the country.

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History of rail transport in Myanmar

Rail transport in Myanmar (then Burma) began in 1877.

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LNER Class D40

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) D40 class is a type of 4-4-0 steam locomotive inherited from the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR).

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London and North Eastern Railway

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain.

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Penarth

Penarth is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan (Bro Morgannwg), Wales, approximately southwest of Cardiff city centre on the north shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay.

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Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.

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Superheater

A superheater is a device used to convert saturated steam or wet steam into superheated steam or dry steam.

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Taff Vale Railway

The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr, and to connect them with docks in Cardiff.

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Tom Hurry Riches

Tom Hurry Riches (1846–1911) was a British engineer who became the Locomotive Superintendent of the Taff Vale Railway in October 1873, and held the post until his death.

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William Pickersgill

William Pickersgill (1861 – 2 May 1928) was chief mechanical engineer of the Caledonian Railway from 1914 until Grouping in 1923.

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4-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, usually in a leading bogie, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels.

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T. E. Heywood, T.E. Heywood, Thomas E. Heywood.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heywood_(railway_engineer)

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