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Richard Deeley

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Richard Mountford Deeley (24 October 1855 – 19 June 1944) was a British engineer, chiefly noted for his five years as Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Midland Railway. [1]

13 relations: Chester, Chief mechanical engineer, Compound locomotive, Derby, Derby Works, Grammar school, Henry Fowler (engineer), Midland Railway, Midland Railway 1000 Class, Samuel W. Johnson, Walter Mackersie Smith, Walter Preston (British politician), 4-4-0.

Chester

Chester (Caer) is a walled city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales.

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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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Compound locomotive

A compound locomotive is a steam locomotive which is powered by a compound engine, a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Derby Works

The Derby railway works comprised a number of British manufacturing facilities designing and building locomotives and rolling stock in Derby, England.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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Henry Fowler (engineer)

Sir Henry Fowler, KBE (29 July 1870 – 16 October 1938) was a chief mechanical engineer of the Midland Railway and subsequently the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Midland Railway 1000 Class

Midland Railway 1000 Class is a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotive designed for passenger work.

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Samuel W. Johnson

Samuel Waite Johnson (14 October 1831 – 14 January 1912) was Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Midland Railway from 1873 to 1903.

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Walter Mackersie Smith

Walter Mackersie Smith (1842-1906) was a Scottish engineer who made an important contribution to the development of the compound steam locomotive.

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Walter Preston (British politician)

Sir Walter Reuben Preston (20 September 1875 – 6 July 1946) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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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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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Deeley

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