William Barton Wright
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William Barton Wright
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William Barton Wright was an English mechanical engineer, also tea plantation owner and mine owner. He was Locomotive Superintendent of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) from 1875. During his ten-year career in that post he helped to make the LYR one of the most efficient railways in the United Kingdom, by designing a range of good locomotives to haul the LYR's traffic.
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British engineer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barton_Wright
date created:
2005-06-16T11:19:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T03:00:21Z
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