William Fairbairn and Sons 1816

industry:
Engineer, Ironfounder, Locomotive builder
Nationality:
British
based:
Manchester, Manchester urban district, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

produced locomotives for the Manchester & Leeds Railway, Little North Western Railway, lines in Ireland, London and North Western Railway; 1863 - locomotive building part of business sold to Sharp, Stewart and Company

Related Objects

Coloured drawing (scale 1:8), partly in section, of vertical engines used for driving the locomotive shops of the G.E.R. at Norwich, from about 1840 until 1922

Coloured drawing of vertical engines used for locomotive shops of the G.E.R. at Norwich
A card mounted salted paper print photograph of the London & North Western Railway 2-2-2 'McConnell Large Bloomer' locomotive 'Eugenie' built by Fairbairn & Sons and exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1855. Proof print with caption in black ink, 'McConnell Engine sent French Exhibition' at top left. Printed from a wet collodion glass negative. Photograph possibly the work of Charles Thurston Thompson and Robert J Bingham.

Salted paper print of London & North Western Railway locomotive 'Eugenie'