Robert Francis Fairlie

British engineer and locomotive designer (1831-1885) · Scientists · Died at 54

Robert Francis Fairlie was a Scottish-born railway engineer. He is chiefly known for the invention of the Fairlie double-bogie articulated locomotive.

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Little Wonder with train of four-wheeled passenger carriages at Portmadoc harbour station on the Festiniog Railway c1870.

David Lloyd George built new in 1991, one of several double Fairlie locomotives operated by the Ffestiniog Railway today.

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Scientists born in the 1830s 6

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