Charles Fairburn

Mechanical Engineer, Military Person

1887 – 1945

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Who was Charles Fairburn?

Charles Edward Fairburn was an electrical engineer whose work mainly concerned rail transport.

Born in Bradford in 1887, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, his career included railway electrification work undertaken in the 1910s at the Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works Ltd., then similar work at English Electric in the 1920s where he also was involved in electric traction development work. In 1934 he joined the London, Midland and Scottish Railway where he was responsible for the introduction of new classes of diesel-electric shunting locomotives - he became Chief Mechanical Engineer of the company in the 1940s, but died in 1945 aged 58.

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Born
Sep 5, 1887
Bradford
Profession
Education
  • Brasenose College, Oxford
Died
Oct 12, 1945

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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