Charles Sacre
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Charles Reboul Sacre (4 September 1831 - 3 August 1889) was an English engineer, Engineer and Superintendent of the Locomotive and Stores Department of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. Samuel Waite Johnson was his assistant between 1859 and 1864. Sacre retired in 1886 and committed suicide by shooting himself, reputedly due to the Penistone rail crash of 1884. Massey Bromley, a locomotive superintendent for the Great Eastern Railway 1878-1881, died in the Penistone crash.
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