Samuel W. Johnson

For other people named Samuel Johnson, see Samuel Johnson (disambiguation).

Samuel Waite Johnson (14 October 1831 — 14 January 1912) was Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Midland Railway from 1873 to 1903. He was born in Bramley, Yorkshire and educated at Leeds Grammar School.

Career

Johnson learned to become an engineer at the locomotive builders E.B.Wilson and Company.

In 1859 Johnson became Acting Locomotive Superintendent at the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. In 1864 he was appointed Locomotive Superintendent of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. In 1866, after only two years in Scotland he replaced Robert Sinclair of the Great Eastern Railway (GER) at Stratford Works. There he stayed for seven years until moving to the Midland Railway (MR) at Derby, where he would stay until his retirement in 1904.

115 Class 4-2-2 ("Spinners")
Class 4 Compound 4-4-0
179 Class
483 Class
1116A Class 0-4-0ST
1377 Class 0-6-0T
1738 Class
2228 Class 0-4-4T
2441 Class 0-6-0T
Class 2 & 3 Goods engines 0-6-0
2501 Class – 30 2-6-0 locomotives built at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, USA
2511 Class – 10 2-6-0 locomotives built at the Schenectady Locomotive Works, USA

Business positions
Preceded by Robert Sinclair	Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Eastern Railway 1866-1873	Succeeded by William Adams
Preceded by Matthew Kirtley	Chief Mechanical Engineer of Midland Railway 1873–1903	Succeeded by Richard Deeley
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Edward Windsor Richards	President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1898	Succeeded by Sir William Henry White

Persondata
Name	Johnson, Samuel Waite
Alternative names
Short description	Locomotive engineer
Date of birth	14 October 1831
Place of birth	Bramley, West Yorkshire, England
Date of death	14 January 1912
Place of death