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Everard Calthrop
British civil engineer · Scientists · Lived 1857 to 1927 · aged 70
Everard Richard Calthrop was a British railway engineer and inventor. Calthrop was a notable promoter and builder of narrow-gauge railways, especially of 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge, and was especially prominent in India.
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O&K locomotive designed by Calthrop and used on the Matheran Light Railway, seen bere at Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway
One of the Garratt locomotives supplied to the Arakan Light Railway
Calthrops black "Guardian Angel" parachute
Image as depicted in The Horse, as Comrade and Friend, published in 1920About this person
His most notable achievement was the Barsi Light Railway, but he is best known in his home country for the Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway. Calthrop has been described as a "railway genius". Later in life he took an interest in aviation, patenting some early designs for parachutes.
