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FINDLAY, SIR GEORGE (1829—1893)

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FINDLAY, See also:SIR See also:GEORGE (1829—1893) , See also:English railway manager, was of pure Scottish descent, and was See also:born at Rainhill, in See also:Lancashire, on the 18th of May 1829. For some See also:time he attended See also:Halifax See also:grammar school, but See also:left at the See also:age of fourteen, and began to learn See also:practical See also:masonry on the Halifax railway, upon which his See also:father was then employed. Two years later he obtained a situation on the See also:Trent Valley railway See also:works, and when that See also:line was finished in 1847 went up to See also:London. There he was for a See also:short time among the men employed in See also:building See also:locomotive sheds for the London & See also:North-Western railway at See also:Camden See also:Town, and years afterwards, when he had become See also:general manager of that railway, he was able to point out stones which he had dressed with his own hands. For the next two or three years he was engaged in a higher capacity as supervisor of the See also:mining and See also:brickwork of the Harecastle See also:tunnel on the North See also:Staffordshire line, and of the See also:Walton tunnel on the See also:Birkenhead, Lancashire & See also:Cheshire Junction railway. In 185o the See also:charge of the construction of a See also:section of the See also:Shrewsbury & See also:Hereford line was entrusted to him, and when the line was opened for See also:traffic T. See also:Brassey, the contractor, having determined to See also:work it himself, installed him as manager. In the course of his duties he was brought for the first time into See also:official relations with the London & North-Western railway, which had under-taken to work the See also:Newport, See also:Abergavenny & Hereford line, and he ultimately passed into the service of that See also:company, when in 1862, jointly with the See also:Great Western, it leased the railway of which he was manager. In 1864 he was moved to Euston as general goods manager, in 1872 he became See also:chief traffic manager, and in 188o he was appointed full general manager; this last See also:post he retained until his See also:death, which occurred on the 26th of See also:March 1893 at Edgware, See also:Middlesex. He was knighted in 1892. Sir George Findlay was the author of a See also:book on the Working and Management of an English Railway (London, 1889), which contains a great See also:deal of See also:information, some of it not easily accessible to the general public, as to English railway practice about the See also:year 189o.

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