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William Pickersgill

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in 1876, where he was a Whitworth Exhibitioner, and after several posts in the running department he was appointed district locomotive superintendent in
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for freight service, and an extraordinary 4-6-0 with derived motion which was highly unsuccessful.
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William Pickersgill's locomotive designs for the Great North of Scotland Railway included:
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4-4-0: 18 built 1899–1915 – 5 sold new to South Eastern and Chatham Railway, becoming
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in 1923. He was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Northern Division of the
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William Pickersgill's locomotive designs for the Caledonian Railway included:
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In 1894, he succeeded James Johnson as the locomotive superintendent of the
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type for that railway and was responsible for the new locomotive works at
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as locomotive, carriage & wagon superintendent of the
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Locomotives of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
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4-4-0: 26 built 1895–98 – became part of LNER class D41
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chief mechanical engineer
Caledonian Railway
Grouping
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Bournemouth
Nantwich
Cheshire
Great Eastern Railway
Stratford
Norwich
Great North of Scotland Railway
4-4-0
Inverurie
Kittybrewster
John F. McIntosh
Caledonian Railway
4-6-0
Grouping
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
GNoSR class T
GNoSR class V
SECR G class
GNoSR class W
Railmotor
Caledonian Railway 191 Class 4-6-0
Caledonian Railway 60 Class 4-6-0
Caledonian Railway 956 Class 4-6-0
Caledonian Railway 113 class 4-4-0 Dunalastair V
Caledonian Railway 72 Class 4-4-0 Dunalastair V
Caledonian Railway 300 Class 0-6-0

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