Thomas Elliot Harrison
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Thomas Elliot Harrison was an English engineer. Born in Fulham, London, he was raised in the north east of England, where his father was a promoter of early railway companies; after an apprenticeship
T.E. Harrison painted by Walter William Ouless c.1884
Victoria viaduct, river Wear
Monkwearmouth railway bridge, river Wear
Skelton railway viaduct (swing bridge)
Robert Stephenson
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Robert Stephenson, DCL was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father.
Stephenson in 1856
Dial Cottage, Killingworth, where Stephenson grew up. The sundial installed by Stephenson and his father can be seen above the front door.
The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825
Stephenson's cottage at Santa Ana