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Name
  
George Hughes

Role
  
Engineer


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Born
  
9 October 1865 (
1865-10-09
)
Benwick, Cambridgeshire, England

Died
  
October 27, 1945, Stamford, United Kingdom

Engineering discipline
  
Locomotive engineer

George Hughes (9 October 1865 – 27 October 1945) was an English locomotive engineer, and chief mechanical engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Contents

L&YR

  • Class 6, a superheated development of the Class 5
  • Class 8 4-6-0 Dreadnought
  • 4-6-4T Dreadnought tank
  • Class 28
  • Railmotors
  • 2-10-0, a heavy mineral loco design of 1914, not built owing to the outbreak of the Great War

    • LMS

  • LMS Hughes Crab

    • Electric locomotive

    During Hughes' time at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway an experimental electric locomotive (rebuilt from a steam locomotive of 2-4-2 wheel arrangement) was introduced in 1912 for goods traffic. This had four 150 horsepower motors (total 600 hp) and could pick up current from the third rail on the main line or from overhead lines in the Aintree and North Mersey yards. It was scrapped in 1919.

    References

    George Hughes (engineer) Wikipedia
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