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Whitton, John (1820 - 1898)

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Born: 1820 Yorkshire, England. Died: 20 February 1898 Mittagong, New South Wales, australia.

John Whitton was Engineer-in-Chief of the New South Wales Railways 1856-90. One of his challenges was building the Blue Mountains line, where he overcame the engineering problems by two great zigzags. Although constantly hampered by government cheese-paring, he supervised the laying of 2171 miles (3474 km) of track on which no accident had occurred attributable to defective design or construction.

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P004062. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 8 August 2006

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