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at Crooke to a running track with stone sleepers and iron rails. The locomotive was built at Haigh Foundry. Under Daglish's management the colliery was extremely profitable. He built a second locomotive and said they each did the work of 14 horses saving the company about £500 per year.
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before moving to Lee Watson and Company's St Helens Iron Foundry. The foundry supplied machinery for mills, mines, waterworks, glassworks, and railways. Iron lattice truss bridges were supplied to the
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he built pumping, winding and blast engines which in their day were described as "improved and efficient machines".
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Around 1810, Daglish moved to Orrell where he was appointed manager of John Clarke's
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in 1833. With his son, Robert who erected the machinery for that railway's
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Daglish's son, Robert (1809-1883) was also an engineer. He trained with
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Daglish moved to Lancashire in 1804 where he was employed by
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Daglish supervised much of the construction work on the
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Index

mining
mechanical
civil engineer
North East England
Institution of Civil Engineers
Orrell
Church of St Thomas the Martyr
Upholland
Lord Balcarres
Haigh Foundry
Haigh
Orrell Colliery
John Blenkinsop
Middleton Railway
Salamanca
Winstanley
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Bolton and Leigh Railway
Novelty
St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway
inclined planes
Newcastle & Carlisle Railway
Great North of England Railway
London and Birmingham Railway
Baltimore and Susquehanna
Boston and Providence
New York and Harlem
Norwich and Worcester Railroads
Hick and Rothwell
Bolton

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