Walter Chalmers
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Walter Chalmers followed his father into the North British Railway, starting as an apprentice at Cowlairs railway works. In 1904 he became Chief Draughtsman and, from 1920-1922, he was Chief Mechanical Engineer.Because Grouping was imminent, Chalmers had little opportunity to develop new steam locomotive types but he did supervise the rebuilding of the last eighteen locomotives of NBR Class M 4-4-0 (later LNER Class D31). He also designed a three-cylinder 2-8-0 mineral engine but this never got beyond the drawing board.…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Walter Chalmers followed his father into the North British Railway, starting as an apprentice at Cowlairs railway works. In 1904 he became Chief Draughtsman and, from 1920-1922, he was Chief Mechanical Engineer.Because Grouping was imminent, Chalmers had little opportunity to develop new steam locomotive types but he did supervise the rebuilding of the last eighteen locomotives of NBR Class M 4-4-0 (later LNER Class D31). He also designed a three-cylinder 2-8-0 mineral engine but this never got beyond the drawing board.