_-_Flickr_-_Peter_G_Trimming_(21).jpg) Three George England locomotives on the Ffestiniog Railway | |
| Company type | Ltd |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering |
| Founded | 1839 |
| Defunct | 1869 |
| Fate | Taken over |
| Successor | Fairlie Engine & Steam Carriage Co. |
| Headquarters | Hatcham, New Cross |
Key people | George England, Robert Francis Fairlie |
| Products | Steam locomotives |
George England and Co. was an early English manufacturer of steam locomotives founded by the engineer George England of Newcastle upon Tyne (1811–1878).[1] The company operated from the Hatcham Iron Works in New Cross, Surrey, and began building locomotives in 1848.
The company supplied one of the earliest tank locomotives to the contractors building the Newhaven, Sussex, branch line for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway[2] and exhibited a design at The Great Exhibition in 1851.[3] It also supplied locomotives to the Ffestiniog Railway, the Wantage Tramway, the Caledonian Railway, the London & Blackwall Railway, the Great Western Railway, the Somerset and Dorset Railway and the Victorian Railways amongst others.
- ^ Ransom, P. J. G. (2004), "England, George (1811/12–1878)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, retrieved 21 January 2009
- ^ The Industrial Locomotive Society (1967), Steam locomotives in industry, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, pp. 9–10
- ^ "The Great Exhibition", The Morning Chronicle, no. 26429, London, England, 29 August 1851