George Hughes (engineer)

George Hughes
Born	(1865-10-09)9 October 1865 Benwick, Cambridgeshire, England
Died	Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
Engineering career
Engineering discipline	Locomotive engineer

George Hughes (9 October 1865 — 27 October 1945) was an English locomotive engineer, and chief mechanical engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Steam locomotives

L&YR

• L&YR Class 6, a superheated development of the Class 5
• L&YR Class 8 4-6-0 Dreadnought
• 4-6-4T Dreadnought tank
• L&YR Class 28
• L&YR railmotors

LMS

• LMS Hughes Crab

Electric locomotive

During Hughes' time at the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway an experimental electric locomotive (rebuilt from a steam locomotive of 2-4-2 wheel arrangement) was introduced in 1912 for goods traffic. This had four 150 horsepower motors (total 600 hp) and could pick up current from the third rail on the main line or from overhead lines in the Aintree and North Mersey yards. It was scrapped in 1919.

See also

• Locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
• LYR electric units

External links

• George Hughes Steam Index website article

Business positions
Preceded by Henry Hoy	Chief mechanical engineer Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 1904 – 1922	Succeeded by Company absorbed by the London and North Western Railway
Preceded by H. P. M. Beames	Chief mechanical engineer London and North Western Railway 1922 – 1923	Succeeded by Company absorbed by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Preceded by Company formed by the Railways Act 1921	Chief mechanical engineer London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1923 – 1925	Succeeded by Henry Fowler