List of people in rail transport
This list of persons in the rail transport includes personalities in the rail transport who have achieved achievements in the field of development and construction of the railroad . These include vehicle engineers, civil engineers, architects, railway company operators , investors and politicians.
Technical development of the railways
Germany
- August von Borries , composite effect and in 1880 the first Prussian composite locomotive
- August Borsig , early locomotives built in Germany, Borsig works
- Friedrich Busse , railway director in Leipzig, developed a transport system for people, luggage and freight, and is considered the father of the German railways
- Paul Camille von Denis , head of the construction of the first railway carriages in Germany for the Ludwigsisenbahn Nürnberg-Fürth
- Franz Anton Egells 1788–1854, locomotive designer and founder of the Franz Anton Egells / New Berlin Iron Foundry
- Robert Garbe , Prussian mechanical engineer
- Richard von Helmholtz , German engineer, designer of the Krauss-Helmholtz steering frame
- Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg designer, Heusinger control
- Georg Knorr (significantly improved air brake )
- Georg Krauss , founder of the Krauss & Co. locomotive factory in Munich, later part of Krauss-Maffei
- Johann Friedrich Krigar first locomotives built in German countries in the Royal Iron Foundry Berlin 1815
- Adolf Klose , Chief Engineer of the Royal Württemberg State Railways , designer
- Franz Kruckenberg , engineer and designer of the rail zeppelin
- Oskar von Miller , engineer, pioneer of route electrification in Bavaria, founder of the Deutsches Museum
- Wilhelm Schmidt , developer of superheated steam technology
- Johann Andreas Schubert , the first operational German steam locomotive Saxonia 1839
- Werner von Siemens (first electric locomotive, Siemens works)
- Max Maria von Weber Railway engineer and book author
- Gustav Wittfeld 1855–1923, developments on steam locomotives and electric locomotives
- Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert 1797–1877, co-development of the first Borsig locomotive, founder of the F. Wöhlert'sche Maschinenbau-Anstalt und Eisengiesserei AG locomotive factory
Great Britain
- William Bridges Adams , publicist, railroad designer and inventor of the Adam's axle
- John Blenkinsop , the first locomotives with rack and pinion drive
- Charles Beyer , designer, co-founder and long-time director of Beyer, Peacock & Co.
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel , railroad pioneer, building the Great Western Railway
- Thomas Russell Crampton ( Crampton Locomotive )
- Herbert William Garratt inventor of the Garratt locomotive
- Sir Nigel Gresley , British steam locomotive builder, record locomotive LNER class A4 "Mallard"
- Joseph Locke , next to the Stephensons and Brunel one of the most important English railway pioneers
- George Stephenson (first commercially viable steam locomotive)
- Robert Stephenson (son of George S., winner of the Rainhill race )
- Richard Trevithick (first steam locomotives)
Austria
- Johann Brotan , Brotankessel
- Wilhelm von Engerth , Engerth locomotive
- Franz Anton von Gerstner , construction of the Budweis – Linz – Gmunden horse-drawn railway
- Carl Ritter von Ghega , builder of the Semmering Railway
- Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen , developer of the Giesl ejector
- Karl Gölsdorf , first six-coupled steam locomotive
- Louis Adolf Gölsdorf , baggage locomotive
Switzerland
- Carl Roman Abt , cog railway system Abt, siding for funicular railway
- Jakob Buchli , development of the single-axle drive , Buchli drive
- Anatole Mallet , Mallet Locomotive
- Niklaus Riggenbach , Europe's first mountain railway with gear drive, steam locomotive braking systems
- Emil Strub , rack railway system Strub
- Willem Jan Holsboer , founder of the Rhaetian Railway
- Olaf Kjelsberg , mechanical part of the first electric locomotives
- Charles Brown , founder of the SLM
- Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown , founder of the BBC together with Boveri, supplier of the Sissach-Gelterkinden-Bahn (second electric railway in Switzerland)
- Louis Favre , builder of the Gotthard tunnel
United States
- Matthias William Baldwin , Baldwin Locomotive Works, the world's largest steam locomotive manufacturer
- Peter Cooper , first locomotive built in the USA
- Sylvester Marsh , the world's first mountain railway with gear drive
- George Mortimer Pullman , Pullman Car , Pullman Sleeping Car Company , USA
- Frank Julian Sprague "father of electric traction" in the USA , trams , train control systems
- George Westinghouse (first continuous air brake in railroad trains)
France
- André Chapelon , created the most powerful steam locomotives in Europe
- Alfred de Glehn , in 1894 the first composite locomotive with 4 cylinders
- Paulin Talabot
Other countries
- Abraham Ganz , Austria-Hungary, founder of the Hungarian Ganz & Cie , railway wheels , wagon construction and electric traction vehicles
- Kálmán Kandó , Austria-Hungary, from 1902 first developments and improvements for electric rail operations , transition from three-phase operation to single-phase alternating current system, later general director of Ganz & Co.
Infrastructure and politics
Germany
- Joseph von Baader , 1763–1835 (project planning of railways in Bavaria)
- Herrmann Bachstein (initiated a large number of branch lines with his central administration for secondary railways )
- Johann Adam Beil , director of the Taunus Railway from 1840 to 1852
- Paul Camille von Denis ( Ludwigseisenbahn Nürnberg-Fürth, Taunus-Eisenbahn Frankfurt-Wiesbaden)
- David Hansemann Banker, politician, Vice President of the Rheinschen Eisenbahngesellschaft
- Friedrich Harkort ( Prince Wilhelm Railway Company , layout of the Prince Wilhelm Railway )
- August von der Heydt 1848–1869 head of the Prussian railway system
- Claus Koepcke engineer and Secret Fiscal 1872 for the development of Saxon narrow gauge railways responsible
- Friedrich Lenz (entrepreneur) (1846–1930) built and operated numerous small and branch lines
- Friedrich List (German economist)
- Bethel Henry Strousberg (numerous routes in former Prussia and Central Eastern Europe)
- Karl Waechter (1840–1913) founder of the railway construction company Vering & Waechter , initiator of numerous small and branch lines
Great Britain
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (numerous British railways, broad gauge railway)
- Sir Samuel Morton Peto , English railway entrepreneur (1809-1889)
Austria
- Wilhelm Eichler von Eichkron (railway entrepreneur, Vienna-Gloggnitz Railway, Semmering Railway , Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahn )
- Carl Ritter von Ghega ( Semmering Railway )
- Franz Josef von Gerstner (project planning of the Budweis – Linz – Gmunden horse-drawn railway )
- Viktor Ofenheim, Knight of Ponteuxin , General Director of the Lemberg-Chernivtsi Railway and major shareholder of several railway companies
- Josef Riehl (rail projects, including Stubaitalbahn , Mittenwaldbahn , Igler , Hungerburgbahn )
Switzerland
- Alfred Escher ( Swiss Railway Act , Swiss Northeast Railway , Gotthard Railway )
- Adolf Guyer-Zeller ( Jungfrau Railway , Swiss Northeast Railway )
- Samuel Stähli ( Timetable , S-Bahn Zurich , Bahn 2000 , New Railway Alpine Transversal )
United States
- James J. Hill Great Northern Railroad
- Cornelius Vanderbilt New York Central System
Other countries
- William Cornelius Van Horne (completed the transcontinental route of the Canadian Pacific Railway )
- Cecil Rhodes (Railway Construction in Africa)
- Charles de Freycinet , initiator of the Plan Freycinet , on the basis of which railways with a length of almost 10,000 km were built in France from 1878 to 1914
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mück, Wolfgang: Germany's first railway with steam power. The royal privately owned Ludwig Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth . ( Dissertation at the University of Würzburg ). Fürth 1985 (2nd revised edition), pp. 115-126