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A railway pioneer is someone who has made a major contribution to the historical development of the railway (US: railroad). This definition includes locomotive engineers, railway construction engineers, operators of railway companies, major railway investors and politicians, of national and international importance for the development of rail transport.
Where possible, inclusion in this list should be justified by an appropriate reference (see talk page ).
Technical development of the railways
Austria
Germany
Name
Notability
References
August von Borries
compound working and the first Prussian compound locomotive in 1880
[ 2] [ 3]
August Borsig
early locomotives built in Germany, Borsig-Werke
[ 2]
Karl Gustav Brescius
railway construction in Saxony
Friedrich Wilhelm Eckhardt
head of BMAG design office, chief designer of DRG Class 44 and 86 and inventor of Schwartzkopff-Eckhardt II bogie .
Robert Garbe
Prussian mechanical engineer, many classic locomotive designs
[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Richard Hartmann
German steam locomotive manufacturer, Sächsische Maschinenfabrik in Chemnitz
[ 2]
Richard von Helmholtz
German engineer, designer of the Krauss-Helmholtz bogie
[ 1] [ 2]
Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg
independently designed the Walschaerts valve gear (hence aka the Heusinger valve gear)
[ 2]
Hermann Kemper
patent for maglev train technology
Georg Knorr
considerably improved compressed air brake
[ 2]
Georg Krauss
founder of Lokomotivfabrik Krauss & Co. in Munich, later part of Krauss-Maffei
[ 2]
Johann Friedrich Krigar
first locomotive built in the German states at the Königliche Eisengießerei Berlin in 1815
Alfred Krupp
discovery of seamless tyres for railway wheels in 1852
Adolf Klose
chief mechanical engineer of the Royal Württemberg State Railways , designer
Franz Kruckenberg
engineer and designer of the Schienenzeppelin
[ 2]
Alfred Lent
railway construction in Prussia (including the Magdeburg-Halberstadt railway ), chief civil engineer for the Berlin Lehrter Bahnhof
Joseph Anton von Maffei
German steam locomotive manufacturer
[ 2]
Oskar von Miller
engineer, driving force for electrified lines in Bavaria , founder of the Deutsches Museum
Walter Reichel
pantograph, electric locomotives
Friedrich Sauthoff
Sauthoff's resistance formula for train motion
Ferdinand Schichau
Schichau-Werke
Wilhelm Schmidt
hot steam Schmidt, developer of the superheated steam technology
[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Johann Andreas Schubert
first practical German steam locomotive Saxonia 1839
[ 2]
Werner von Siemens
first electric locomotive, Siemens-Werke
[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Moritz Stambke
development of the German state railway norms
Johann Stumpf
best known for popularising the uniflow steam engine around 1909
[ 1]
Max Maria von Weber
railway engineer and author
[ 2]
Richard Paul Wagner
Chief of Design for Deutsche Reichsbahn 1922–1942; responsible for standard locomotive designs (Einheitslokomotiven
[ 1] [ 2]
Hans Wendler
railway engineer in the GDR, Wendler coal-dust firing system
Gustav Wittfeld
1855 – 1923, developments on steam locomotives and electric railway vehicles
[ 2]
Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert
1797 – 1877l early German industrialist and locomotive manufacturer in Berlin.
Switzerland
Roman Abt ,[ 1] [ 3] Abt rack railway system , points for funicular railwaysJakob Buchli development of single-axle drive, Buchli drive Bruno Hildebrand , founder and CEO of the Swiss Northeastern Railway .Emil Huber-Stockar , pioneer of the electric traction with high-tension, low frequency ACEduard Locher , rack with horizontal engagementAnatole Mallet ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Mallet locomotive Niklaus Riggenbach ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Emil Strub , Strub rack railway system René Thury ,[ 1] [ 3] rack railway in 1884 at Montreux , responsible for many inventions especially involving series coupling of electric motors
United Kingdom
William Adams [ 1] [ 2] [ 3] NLR , 1858–1873; GER 1873–1878 and L&SWR 1878–1895. Inventor of Adams bogie William Bridges Adams (1797–1872), author, inventor and locomotive engineer. Inventor of Adams axle John Blenkinsop ,[ 2] [ 3] rack system and rack railsCharles Beyer ,[ 3] Beyer, Peacock & Co. for many yearsLouis Brennan , inventor of a monorailIsambard Kingdom Brunel ,[ 3] Great Western Railway Oliver Bulleid ,[ 3] CME of Southern Railway , designed the most powerful Pacifics in BritainThomas Russell Crampton ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Crampton locomotive Robert Francis Fairlie ,[ 3] Fairlie locomotive Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet , London railway, locomotivesHerbert William Garratt ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Garratt locomotive Sir Nigel Gresley ,[ 1] [ 3] Mallard
Timothy Hackworth ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Puffing Billy Stockton and Darlington Railway , Participant in the Rainhill trials William Hedley ,[ 3] Puffing Billy Charles Lartigue , Lartigue Monorail Joseph Locke ,[ 3] Thomas Newcomen ,[ 3] Benjamin Outram ,[ 4] tramways .John Ramsbottom ,[ 1] [ 3] mechanical engineer who invented inter alia the Ramsbottom safety valve , the displacement lubricator , and the water trough Sir Vincent Litchfield Raven KBE ,[ 1] CME of the North Eastern Railway from 1910 to 1922[ 5] George Stephenson ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Robert Stephenson ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Rainhill trials William Stroudley ,[ 1] [ 3] LB&SCR . Designed some of the most famous and longest lived steam locomotives of his eraPatrick Stirling ,[ 1] CME of the Great Northern Railway where his famous 8 ft singles (4-2-2's) were the principal express engines for many years, achieving world-wide fameRichard Trevithick ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Wales in 1804Charles Blacker Vignoles , Inventor of the Vignoles rail profileJames Watt ,[ 3] Francis Webb ,[ 1] [ 3] CME of the London & North Western Railway , a pioneer in the use of steel for locomotivesWilliam Wilson , first locomotive driver in Germany
USA
Horatio Allen ,[ 3] articulated locomotive in 1832Matthias William Baldwin ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Peter Cooper ,[ 3] locomotive built in the USACharles F. Kettering ,[ 1] diesel engines especially for rail tractionWilliam K. MacCurdy ,[ 6] Hydra-Cushion in 1954 to ease stress on freight cars for Southern Pacific Sylvester Marsh , first mountain railway in the world with a rack system William Norris ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Norris Locomotive Works and pioneered the use of the 4-2-0 (Norris type) locomotive in America during the 1840sGeorge Mortimer Pullman ,[ 2] [ 3] Pullman Palace Car Company USAThomas Rogers ,[ 1] [ 3] Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey Ephraim Shay ,[ 1] Shay locomotive Frank Julian Sprague ,[ 3] tramway , train safety systemRobert L. Stevens , inventor of the Flanged T rail George S. Strong ,[ 1] Samuel M. Vauclain ,[ 1] [ 3] Baldwin Locomotive Works . Patented the Vauclain compound engine.Axel Vogt ,[ 1] Pennsylvania Railroad 1887–1919. Responsible for many of the beautifully proportioned and elegantly designed Pennsylvania classes. Considerable influence on modern US locomotive designGeorge Westinghouse ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] compressed air brake in trainsRoss Winans ,[ 1] [ 3]
Other countries
Alfred Belpaire ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] CME and Administrative President of Belgian State Railway. Inventor of Belpaire firebox Gaston du Bousquet ,[ 1] [ 3] CME (ingénieur en chef traction ) of the Chemin de Fer du Nord Arturo Caprotti ,[ 1] [ 3] Caprotti valve gear André Chapelon ,[ 2] [ 3] Nicholas Cugnot , France, steam coachAlfred de Glehn ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] compound locomotive with 4 cylinders in 1894Attilio Franco and Piero Crosti ,[ 7] [ 8] Franco-Crosti boiler Abraham Ganz , Austria-Hungary, founder of the Hungarian Ganz & Cie Jean Jacques Meyer , French locomotive designer, inventor of the articulated Meyer locomotive Carl Abraham Pihl , Norway, developer of the CAP Spur alias Kapspur Marc Seguin ,[ 1] [ 3] boiler and blast pipe Egide Walschaerts ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Walschaerts valve gear (also called the Heusinger valve gear)
Infrastructure and politics
Austria
Germany
Philipp-August von Amsberg , first German state railwayHerrmann Bachstein , initiated with his Centralverwaltung for Secundairbahnen a large number of branch linesJohann Adam Beil , manager of the Taunus railway from 1840 to 1852Otto von Bismarck , Networking of competing private railways by nationalisation and political pressure , political concept behind the Deutsche Reichsbahn Julius Dorpmüller , general manager of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1926–1945 and Reich Transport Minister from 1937 to 1945, planning of railway construction.Paul Camille von Denis , Bavarian Ludwigsbahn from Nuremberg-FürthKarl Etzel , architect and railway pioneer (built, inter alia , the Brennerbahn Geislinger Steige Robert Gerwig , Schwarzwaldbahn Gotthardbahn David Hansemann banker, politician, vice president of the Rhenisch railway companyFriedrich Harkort , Prinz-Wilhelm railway August von der Heydt , head of the Prussian state railways from 1848 to 1869Michael Knoll , Geislinger Steige Claus Koepcke , engineer and responsible for the development of the Saxon narrow gauge railways as the Geheimer Finanzrat from 1872Gustav Kröhnke , engineer, pushed for the construction of the Vogelfluglinie Friedrich List ,[ 2] [ 3] Albert von Maybach , head of the Prussian state railways from 1879Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke , field marshal, strategistLouis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff ,[ 2] Berliner Maschinenbau Bethel Henry Strousberg , numerous routes im former Prussia and in central Europe
Switzerland
United Kingdom
USA
John W. Barriger III , railway entrepreneurHenry Morrison Flagler , Florida East Coast Railway Jay Gould , railway tycoon E. H. Harriman , railway tycoon James J. Hill , railway tycoon David Moffat , railway entrepreneurWilliam Jackson Palmer , railway entrepreneurvan Sweringen brothers , railway entrepreneursCornelius Vanderbilt ,[ 1] tycoon , patented Vanderbilt boilers and tendersDaniel Willard , railway manager
Other countries
See also
References
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