- 12:03, 4 March 2007 diff hist +1,221 N London, Midland and Scottish Railway New page: The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS1) was a British railway company. It was formed in 1923 by the forced Grouping of over 300 separate railway companies into just four. It was an ...
- 12:00, 4 March 2007 diff hist +302 N Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway New page: The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping, although in 1922 it had already entered into a working agreement with the [[London...
- 11:59, 4 March 2007 diff hist −1 London and North Western Railway
- 11:58, 4 March 2007 diff hist +1,906 N London and North Western Railway New page: The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was a railway company of the United Kingdom which existed between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three railway companies - the [...
- 11:56, 4 March 2007 diff hist +39 Liverpool and Manchester Railway
- 11:54, 4 March 2007 diff hist +2,677 N Liverpool and Manchester Railway New page: The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the world's first intercity passenger railway in which all the trains were timetabled and operated for most of the distance solely by steam ...
- 11:51, 4 March 2007 diff hist +18 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- 11:48, 4 March 2007 diff hist −512 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- 11:46, 4 March 2007 diff hist −2,031 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- 11:43, 4 March 2007 diff hist −411 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- 11:37, 4 March 2007 diff hist +22,847 N Isambard Kingdom Brunel New page: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and...
- 11:30, 4 March 2007 diff hist +316 John Audley Frederick Aspinall
- 11:24, 4 March 2007 diff hist +2,543 N John Audley Frederick Aspinall New page: Lived 1851-1937 John Aspinall was born on 25 August 1851, the son of a Liverpool judge (who had become a convert to Roman Catholicism), John Aspinall attended Beaumont College (a Roman Cat...
- 09:27, 4 March 2007 diff hist +481 N Chester and Crewe Railway New page: The Chester and Crewe Railway was an early railway company absorbed by the Grand Junction Railway in 1840. The line was 11 miles in length, the engineer was Robert Stephenson and t...
- 09:25, 4 March 2007 diff hist +2,458 N Grand Junction Railway New page: The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846. The line built by the company was one of the first railway lines t...
- 09:22, 4 March 2007 diff hist +4 Crewe Works
- 09:22, 4 March 2007 diff hist +5 Crewe Works
- 09:21, 4 March 2007 diff hist +4,738 N Crewe Works New page: Crewe railway works is a British railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway. The railway also built 200 cottages establishing a new community in what had been...
- 09:15, 4 March 2007 diff hist +580 N John Ramsbottom (of Leeds) New page: * Lived 1814-1897 * Born at Todmorden the son of a mill-owner with the first steam driven mill in that area. * Amalgamated various London and North Western railway divisional locomotiv...
- 09:09, 4 March 2007 diff hist +46 Dugald Drummond
- 09:09, 4 March 2007 diff hist +31 John Farquharson McIntosh
- 09:06, 4 March 2007 diff hist +1 John Farquharson McIntosh
- 09:06, 4 March 2007 diff hist +415 N John Farquharson McIntosh New page: * Lived 1846-1918 * Born at Haugh of Kinnaird * Locomotive Superintendant at Caledonian Railway 1895-1914 * Patented the gauge glass protector, Spart arreter, self-adjusting sandpipe n...
- 09:03, 4 March 2007 diff hist +17 Joseph Locke
- 09:00, 4 March 2007 diff hist +210 Joseph Locke
- 08:57, 4 March 2007 diff hist +511 N Joseph Locke New page: 1805-1860. Born at Attercliffe, Sheffield. Son of William Locke a fellow worker with George Stephenson at Walbottle Colliery Best-known works - * Grand Junction Railway 1835 *...
- 08:52, 4 March 2007 diff hist +66 Matthew Kirtley
- 08:47, 4 March 2007 diff hist +545 N Matthew Kirtley New page: 1813-1873. Born at Tatfield, County Durham. Locomotive Engineer. Son of a colliery owner. Apprenticed under George Stephenson and Robert Stephenson and also trained under [[Timothy...
- 08:18, 4 March 2007 diff hist +53 Timothy Hackworth
- 08:14, 4 March 2007 diff hist +92 Timothy Hackworth
- 08:13, 4 March 2007 diff hist +295 N Timothy Hackworth New page: 1786-1850. Born at Wylam. Locomotive Engineer * Engineer on the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1824-40 * Developed the Shildon Locomotive Works in 1833 * Developed the blast-pipe...
- 17:16, 3 March 2007 diff hist +7,026 N George Stephenson New page: George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English mechanical engineer who designed the famous and historically important steam locomotive named Rocket and is known as the "...
- 17:11, 3 March 2007 diff hist +3,185 N Robert Stephenson New page: Robert Stephenson FRS (October 16, 1803–October 12, 1859) was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed railway and locomotive engineer; many of ...
- 17:07, 3 March 2007 diff hist +1,444 N National Railway Museum New page: The NRM contains a collection of over 100 locomotives and nearly 200 other items of rolling stock, together with many hundreds of thousands of other items of social, technical and historic...
- 17:05, 3 March 2007 diff hist +1,109 N Hetton Colliery Railway New page: The Hetton colliery railway was a private railway opened in 1822 by the Hetton Coal Company at Hetton Lyons, County Durham, in England. It was the first to be designed from the start t...
- 17:04, 3 March 2007 diff hist 0 Stockton and Darlington Railway
- 17:04, 3 March 2007 diff hist +8,357 N Stockton and Darlington Railway New page: The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR), which opened in 1825, was the first permanent steam locomotive public railway. The line was 26 miles (40 km) long, and was built between Darling...
- 16:59, 3 March 2007 diff hist −677 Leicester and Swannington Railway
- 16:57, 3 March 2007 diff hist +4,961 N Leicester and Swannington Railway New page: The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of England's first railways, being opened on July 17, 1832 to bring coal from pits in west Leicestershire to Leicester. In 1828 William ...
- 16:54, 3 March 2007 diff hist +2,510 N Midland Railway New page: The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1844 to 1922. It was formed in 1844 by the merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the [[North ...
- 16:52, 3 March 2007 diff hist +473 N Midland Counties Railway New page: The Midland Counties Railway (MCR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom which existed between 1832 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby and thence to Lond...
- 16:50, 3 March 2007 diff hist +2,088 N Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway New page: Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway was a British railway company. From Birmingham it connected at Derby with the North Midland Railway and the Midland Counties Railway at what b...
- 16:48, 3 March 2007 diff hist +879 N North Midland Railway New page: The North Midland Railway was a British railway company, which opened its line from Derby to Rotherham (Masborough) and Leeds in 1840. At Derby it connected with the [[Birmingham and Derby...
- 16:45, 3 March 2007 diff hist +186 N Thomas Longridge Gooch New page: Thomas Longridge Gooch (November 1, 1808 – November 23, 1882) was civil engineer of the Manchester and Leeds Railway from 1831 to 1844<ref>Wikipedia</ref> ==Notes== <references/>
- 16:44, 3 March 2007 diff hist +1,406 N Manchester and Leeds Railway New page: The Manchester and Leeds Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom which opened in 1839, connecting Manchester with Leeds via the North Midland Railway which it joined at Nor...
- 16:41, 3 March 2007 diff hist +47 William Fairbairn and Sons
- 16:41, 3 March 2007 diff hist +1,406 N William Fairbairn and Sons New page: William Fairbairn and Sons, was an engineering works in Manchester, England. William Fairbairn opened an iron foundry in 1816 and was joned the following year by a Mr. Lillie, and the firm...
- 16:39, 3 March 2007 diff hist +1,184 N Robert John Billinton New page: Robert John Billinton was the Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1890 until his death in 1904. He was born in Wakefield...
- 16:36, 3 March 2007 diff hist +876 N South Eastern and Chatham Railway New page: The South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) was formed on 1 January 1899, when two neighbouring rival railways; the South Eastern Railway (SER) and [[London, Chatham and Dover Railway...
- 16:34, 3 March 2007 diff hist +54 London, Brighton and South Coast Railway