- Source: List of railway pioneers
A railway pioneer is someone who has made a significant 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
== Switzerland
=Roman Abt, Abt rack railway system, points for funicular railways
Jakob 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 AC
Eduard Locher, rack with horizontal engagement
Anatole Mallet, Mallet locomotive
Niklaus Riggenbach, first mountain railway in Europe with rack system, steam locomotive braking system
Emil Strub, Strub rack railway system
René Thury, engineer, "King of DC", experimental rack railway in 1884 at Montreux, responsible for many inventions especially involving series coupling of electric motors
= United Kingdom
=William Adams (1823–1904), locomotive superintendent of North London Railway, 1858–1873; Great Eastern Railway 1873–1878 and London & South Western Railway 1878–1895, inventor of Adams bogie
William Bridges Adams (1797–1872), author, inventor and locomotive engineer. Inventor of Adams axle
John Blenkinsop, first locomotives with rack system and rack rails
Charles Beyer, designer, co-founder and manager of Beyer, Peacock & Company for many years
Louis Brennan, inventor of a monorail
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, railway pioneer, construction of the Great Western Railway
Oliver Bulleid, unorthodox locomotive designer, CME of Southern Railway, designed the most powerful Pacifics in Britain
Thomas Russell Crampton, Crampton locomotive
Robert Francis Fairlie, Fairlie locomotive
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, London railway, locomotives
Herbert William Garratt, inventor of the Garratt locomotive
Nigel Gresley, designer of world-record holding locomotive, Mallard
Timothy Hackworth, built Hedley's Puffing Billy and locomotives for the Stockton & Darlington Railway, Participant in the Rainhill trials
William Hedley, designer of the Puffing Billy
Charles Lartigue, Lartigue Monorail
Joseph Locke, next to the Stephensons and Brunel, one of the most important English railway pioneers
Thomas Newcomen, first practical static steam engine
Benjamin Outram, civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist. Pioneer in the building of canals and tramways.
John Ramsbottom, mechanical engineer who invented inter alia the Ramsbottom safety valve, the displacement lubricator, and the water trough
Sir Vincent Litchfield Raven KBE, was CME of the North Eastern Railway from 1910 to 1922
George Stephenson, first economically usable steam locomotive
Robert Stephenson, son of George, winner of the Rainhill trials
William Stroudley, one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers of the 19th century, working principally for London, Brighton & South Coast Railway. Designed some of the most famous and longest lived steam locomotives of his era
Patrick Stirling, 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 fame
Richard Trevithick, "father of the locomotive", built first practical steam locomotive at Penydarran in Wales in 1804
Charles Blacker Vignoles, inventor of the Vignoles rail profile
James Watt, improvements to the steam engine
Francis Webb, CME of the London & North Western Railway, a pioneer in the use of steel for locomotives
William Wilson, first locomotive driver in Germany
= United States
=Horatio Allen, designed world's first articulated locomotive in 1832
Matthias William Baldwin, Baldwin Locomotive Works, the world's largest steam locomotive manufacturer
Peter Cooper, first locomotive built in the US
Charles F. Kettering, developed high-speed, 2-stroke diesel engines especially for rail traction
William K. MacCurdy, developed the 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, founded the Norris Locomotive Works and pioneered the use of the 4-2-0 (Norris type) locomotive in America during the 1840s
George Mortimer Pullman, Pullman Palace Car Company
William Robinson,: 59 inventor of the track circuit
Thomas Rogers, mechanical engineer and founder of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey
Ephraim Shay, inventor of the Shay locomotive
Frank Julian Sprague, "Father of electric traction" in the US, tramway, train safety system
Robert L. Stevens, inventor of the Flanged T rail
George S. Strong, introduced new locomotives types in American much in advance of their time
Samuel M. Vauclain, Baldwin Locomotive Works, patented the Vauclain compound engine.
Axel Vogt, mechanical engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad 1887–1919, responsible for many of the beautifully proportioned and elegantly designed Pennsylvania classes, considerable influence on modern U.S. locomotive design
George Westinghouse, designed the first through compressed air brake in trains
Ross Winans, prolific inventor and builder of early American locomotives
= Other countries
=Alfred Belpaire, Belgium, CME and Administrative President of Belgian State Railway. Inventor of Belpaire firebox
Gaston du Bousquet, France, CME (ingénieur en chef traction) of the Chemin de Fer du Nord
Dobrivoje Božić, Serbia, mechanical engineer, inventor and constructor of the first air brakes for trains
Arturo Caprotti, Italy, invented rotating cam valve gear for locomotives, the Caprotti valve gear
André Chapelon, France, built the most powerful steam locomotives in Europe
Nicholas Cugnot, France, steam coach
Alfred de Glehn, France, first compound locomotive with 4 cylinders in 1894
Attilio Franco and Piero Crosti, Italy, invented the Franco-Crosti boiler
Abraham Ganz, Austria-Hungary, founder of the Hungarian Ganz & Cie, railway wheels, coach building and electrical railway vehicles
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, France, first French locomotive engineer; independent inventor of the fire-tube boiler and blast pipe
Hideo Shima, Japanese engineer and overseer of the first Shinkansen line.
Egide Walschaerts, Belgium, engineer and inventor of the Walschaerts valve gear (also called the Heusinger valve gear)
Infrastructure and politics
= Austria
=Carl Ritter von Ghega, Semmering railway
Baron Albert von Rothschild
= Germany
=Philipp-August von Amsberg, first German state railway
Herrmann Bachstein, initiated with his Centralverwaltung for Secundairbahnen a large number of branch lines
Johann Adam Beil, manager of the Taunus railway from 1840 to 1852
Otto 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-Fürth
Karl Etzel, architect and railway pioneer (built, inter alia, the Brennerbahn, the Geislinger Steige and the Bietigheim railway viaduct
Robert Gerwig, Schwarzwaldbahn, Gotthardbahn
David Hansemann banker, politician, vice president of the Rhenisch railway company
Friedrich Harkort, Prinz-Wilhelm railway
August von der Heydt, head of the Prussian state railways from 1848 to 1869
Michael Knoll, Geislinger Steige
Claus Koepcke, engineer and responsible for the development of the Saxon narrow gauge railways as the Geheimer Finanzrat from 1872
Gustav Kröhnke, engineer, pushed for the construction of the Vogelfluglinie
Friedrich List, German economist
Albert von Maybach, head of the Prussian state railways from 1879
Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke, field marshal, strategist
Louis Victor Robert Schwartzkopff, German businessman, founded L Schwartzkopff, later Berliner Maschinenbau
Bethel Henry Strousberg, numerous routes in former Prussia and central Europe
= Switzerland
=Alfred Escher, Swiss railway law, Swiss Northeastern Railway, Gotthardbahn
Adolf Guyer-Zeller, Jungfraubahn
Alois Negrelli von Moldelbe, first Swiss railway from Baden to Zürich
Willem Jan Holsboer, initiator of the Rhaetian Railway
= United Kingdom
=Thomas Brassey, railway entrepreneur, built railways on every continent
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, numerous British railway lines, broad gauge
Edward Pease, initiator and operator of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, co-founder of the railway town of Middlesbrough
Sir Samuel Morton Peto, English railway entrepreneur (1809–1889)
= United States
=John W. Barriger III, railway entrepreneur
Henry Morrison Flagler, Florida East Coast Railway
Jay Gould, railway tycoon
E. H. Harriman, railway tycoon
James J. Hill, railway tycoon
David Moffat, railway entrepreneur
William Jackson Palmer, railway entrepreneur
van Sweringen brothers, railway entrepreneurs
Cornelius Vanderbilt, railway tycoon, patented Vanderbilt boilers and tenders
Daniel Willard, railway manager
= Other countries
=Louis Armand, France, president of SNCF board of directors, president of UIC and inventor of water treatment process for steam locomotives
Cecil Rhodes, railway construction in Africa
William Cornelius Van Horne, responsible for the completion of the transcontinental route of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Søren Hjorth, initiator of the first Scandinavian railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde
See also
History of rail transport
References
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