Robert Francis Fairlie was born in March 1831, of an engineering family.
I have a great deal more information on many aspects of the George England story and will add them to the archive section as I can on an ongoing basis. I eventually intend, for example, to collate and publish as much information as can be found on each of the locomotives built, though much of the information is contradictory. Mr England himself is a fascinating character, though as the railway historian C. Hamilton Ellis once put it; “Not a gentleman...”.
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Grahame Hood
Posts tagged “Robert Fairlie”
The grave in West Norwood is number 20788, in square 22, and a little back from the path.
An excerpt from Hamilton Ellis "The North British Railway" Ian Allan 2nd Edition 1959 p.50 et seq.
A history of locomotives built by Robert Fairlie at Hatcham Iron Works