Thomas William Worsdell
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Thomas William Worsdell (14 January 1838-28 June 1916) was a British locomotive engineer. The son of Nathaniel Worsdell, and grandson of the coachbuilder Thomas Clarke Worsdell, he was born in Liverpool into a Quaker family.
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[edit] Career
He worked at the Crewe Works of the LNWR under John Ramsbottom but in 1865 moved to the United States to the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1871 he was invited by Francis William Webb to return to Crewe. In 1881 he was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway, but in 1885 moved to the North Eastern Railway, being replaced at the GER by James Holden. He retired from the NER in 1890 to be replaced by his younger brother Wilson Worsdell.
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Worsdell obtained a number of patents [1] including several (in association with August von Borries, a Prussian locomotive engineer) relating to compound locomotives. T. W. Worsdell used the von Borries two-cylinder compound system in several of his designs for the North Eastern Railway.
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