George Heald | |
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| Born | 2 June 1816 Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 25 May 1858 (aged 41) Rugeley, Staffordshire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
| Parent(s) | Thomas and Sarah Heald (née Murray) |
George Heald (2 June 1816 – 25 May 1858) was a civil engineer active at the beginning of the 19th century, notable for his role in the building of railways that formed part of the Grand Junction Railway, the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, the Caledonian Railway and the North Midland Railway. Nowadays he is largely forgotten but to his contemporaries and those that followed immediately afterwards, he was one of the key engineers of the early railway age being listed alongside Brunel, Stephenson, Locke and Cubitt in George Drysdale Dempsey's book, the Practical Railway Engineer.[1] He was a colleague and friend of Robert Stephenson and also worked with other notable railway engineers such as Joseph Locke and Thomas Brassey.