London and North Eastern Railway - Chief Mechanical Engineers

Chief Mechanical Engineers

The public face of a railway system is in large part the locomotives and rolling stock in service upon it, and therefore the personalities of the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the LNER impressed their distinctive visions upon the railway. There were three CMEs of the LNER.

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