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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Charles Macintosh, David Stevenson, Robert Absalom Thom, James Stirling, Daniel Kinnear Clark, John Boyd Dunlop, Benjamin Blyth II, Thomas Lomar Gray, Charles Gordon O'Neill, William McNaught, George Tosh, Dugald Clerk, Ian Donald, James Arthur Banks, Matthew Stirling, Thomas Stevenson, Don Cameron, James Abernethy, Robert Davidson, Archibald Sturrock, Alexander Kennedy Smith, George Bruce of Carnock, John Miller of Leithen, Thomas Grainger, James R. Barr, Walter Brown, Patrick Stirling, Alan Stevenson, David Anderson, David Napier, Percy G. B. Westmacott, Francis Baird, Robert Urie, Robert Stirling Newall, George Buchanan, Colin R. McInnes, Alexander C. Kirk, Willie Logan, James Goodfellow, Thomas Smith, Charles Alexander Stevenson, James Jardine, John Baildon, Archibald Barr, Andrew Meikle, John Waddell, Robert Buchan, Ian Carmichael, Alexander Allan, James C. Crow, Alex Smith, Campbell Leckie, Graeme Haldane, Hugh Smellie, Archibald Hood, John F. McIntosh, John Johnston, Joe Tarnowski, Thomas Coughtrie, Daniel Fraser, James Tocher Bain, John Robison, Walter Biggar Blaikie, Nicol Hugh Baird, Robert Henry Bow, Edward Wilson, Alexander Wood, Edmund Burt, Johannes Grant, William McLellan, Robert Caird, Alexander Henry, John Lambie, Lewis Gordon, JM Dodds, John Scott, James Small. Excerpt: Robert Absalom Thom (14 June 1873-2 November 1955) was the final Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway, and became a key figure in the locomotive departments of the company's successors, the Great Central Railway and the London & North Eastern Railway. Thom was born at Aberdeen on 14 June 1873. He attended Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen, where he received a technical education, before being apprenticed in 1888 to the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) at their lo...
