E.L. Ahrons

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Ernest Leopold Ahrons (February 12, 1866-March 30, 1925) was a British engineer and author. He is most noted for his magnum opus, The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825-1925, published posthumously in book form, and for a series originally published in The Railway Magazine "Locomotive and train working in the latter part of the nineteenth century". Born in Bradford he worked for the Great Western Railway at its Swindon Works 1885-90 and then held various engineering posts in Manchester and Egypt and for the British Government up to 1919.

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