Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid (19 September 1882 - 25 April 1970) was a British railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation, developing many well-known locomotives. September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Mechanical engineering is the application of physical principles to the creation of useful devices, objects and machines. ... Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British railway companies to persons in charge of building or maintaining locomotives. ... The Southern Railway in the United Kingdom was the smallest of the four railway systems created in the Grouping ordered by the Railways Act 1921. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. ... A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ...

Biography

He was born in Invercargill, New Zealand to William Bulleid and his wife Marian Pugh, both British immigrants. On the death of his father, Oliver Bulleid returned to Wales in 1889 with his mother. At 18, after a technical education, he joined the Great Northern Railway at Doncaster as an apprentice under H. A. Ivatt, the then CME. After a 4-year apprenticeship, he became the assistant to the railway's Locomotive Running Superintendent, and a year later the Doncaster Works manager. In 1908 he left the railway to work in Paris with the French division of Westinghouse as a Test Engineer, soon promoted to Assistant Works Manager and Chief Draughtsman. Later that year he married Marjorie Ivatt, the youngest daughter of the railway mechanical engineer H. A. Ivatt. Invercargill is the southernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the most southern settlements in the world. ... National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English(100%), Welsh(20. ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... A separate article covers the Great Northern Railway in the USA and the Great Northern Railway in Ireland. ... Map sources for Doncaster at grid reference SE5702 Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England. ... Henry Alfred Ivatt (16 September 1851 — 25 October 1923) was the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway from 1896 to 1911. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Westinghouse could refer to: George Westinghouse Westinghouse Electric Corporation. ... Henry Alfred Ivatt (16 September 1851 — 25 October 1923) was the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway from 1896 to 1911. ...

A brief period working for the Board of Trade followed from 1910, arranging exhibitions in Brussels and Paris, but a more important change followed in 1912 when he rejoined the Great Northern Railway as the Personal Assistant to Nigel Gresley, the new CME of the railway. Gresley was only 6 years Bulleid's senior. The Board of Trade was a body the government of the United Kingdom, originating as a committee of inquiry in the 17th century and evolving gradually into a government department with a diverse range of functions. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley (19 June 1876 – 5 April 1941) was one of Britains most famous Steam locomotive engineers who worked for the Great Northern Railway company from 1911 to 1922 as locomotive superintendent and for the London and North Eastern Railway company (LNER) from 1923 to 1941 as...

World War I intervened; Bulleid joined the British Army and was assigned to the rail transport arm, rising to the rank of Major. After the War, Bulleid returned to the GNR as the Manager of the Wagon and Carriage Works. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ...

Grouping in 1923 saw the GNR subsumed into the new London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), and Gresley was appointed the CME of the new amalgamated railway. He brought Bulleid back to Doncaster to be his assistant, a post that was to last until 1937. This was the period during which Gresley produced the majority of his famous locomotives and innovations, and Bulleid had a hand in many of them. The Railways Act of 1921, also known as the Grouping forcibly merged British railway companies into The Big Four, as of 1st January 1923. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The London and North Eastern Railway or LNER was the second-largest of the Big Four railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Among the projects Bulleid was involved with were the LNER Class P1 2-8-2 and LNER Class U1 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt freight locomotives, and the LNER Class P2 2-8-2 express locomotive. In the Whyte notation, a 2-8-2 is a railroad steam locomotive that has one unpowered leading axle followed by four powered driving axles and one unpowered trailing axle. ... A Garratt is a type of steam locomotive that is articulated, normally in three parts. ...

In 1937, Bulleid accepted the post of Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway (SR). At first, his work mostly involved improving the existing types, but in 1938 he gained approval to build a class of modern 4-6-2 "Pacifics", inspired by Gresley's but with all the most modern equipment. The first of the Bulleid Pacifics, 21C1 Channel Packet (Merchant Navy class) was built in 1941; 30 more were to follow. A slightly smaller Pacific class for more lightly built lines followed in 1945, the West Country/Battle of Britain class, of which 110 were built; 21C101 Exeter was the first. His other major steam locomotive design, the SR Class Q1 "Austerity" 0-6-0 freight engine, appeared in 1942. 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Southern Railway in the United Kingdom was the smallest of the four railway systems created in the Grouping ordered by the Railways Act 1921. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Pennsylvania Railroads class K4s, a well known 4-6-2 type. ... The Southern Railway (SR) Merchant Navy Class is a class of steam locomotive designed for express passenger work. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Preserved Unrebuilt West Country Class 21C213 Blackmoor Vale. ... Preserved Unrebuilt West Country Class 21C213 Blackmoor Vale. ... Preserved number C1 The Southern Railway Class Q1 is a class of steam locomotive and represents the ultimate development of the British 0-6-0 freight engine. ... 0-6-0 is also the emergency telephone number in Mexico, similar to the United Statess 9-1-1. ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Bulleid also played a major role in the electrification of the Southern Railway, including infrastructure, electric multiple units, and electric locomotives. Electrification refers to changing a thing or system to operate using electricity. ... A multiple unit is a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors, either diesel (DMUs) or electric (EMUs), and do not need to be hauled by a locomotive. ... East German E 18 electric locomotives of the Deutsche Reichsbahn An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electric motors which draws current from an overhead wire, a third rail, or an on-board storage device such as a battery or a flywheel energy storage system. ...

His final steam locomotive design for the SR was the unconventional Leader, appearing in 1949 after Nationalisation. This encased the boiler, coal and water supplies and everything else in a double-ended smooth body reminiscent of a diesel locomotive. Power was through two six-wheel powered bogies allowed to freely swivel with curves, each with three cylinders. The axles on each bogie were connected by gearing. The Leader was innovative but ultimately unsuccessful. 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Nationalization is the act of taking assets into state ownership. ... Great Western Railway No. ... US_style railroad truck. ... The word cylinder has several meanings. ...

Bulleid worked briefly as CME of British Railways Southern Region but soon took a post in Ireland with Córas Iompair Éireann (Irish Railways) as their Chief Mechanical Engineer. He developed an unsuccessful peat-burning locomotive along the lines of the Leader, which proved to be a dead end, but was also responsible for much modernisation of Ireland's locomotives and rolling stock. British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system, from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ... Córas Iompair Éireann1 (CIÉ) (English: Irish Transport Company) is a statutory authority which is owned by the Irish Government. ... Peat in Lewis, Scotland Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetable matter. ...

He retired from CIÉ in 1958 and subsequently lived in Belstone in Devon, and subsequently Exmouth. Bulleid was awarded a honorary doctorate by Bath University in 1967. Shortly thereafter he moved to Malta, where he died in 1970 aged 87. 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Belstone is a village in Devon, England best known for the Nine Maidens stone circle. ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Map sources for Exmouth at grid reference SY004809 Exmouth is a town in Devon, England, at the east side of the mouth of the River Exe. ... The University of Bath was established in 1966 near Bath, England, since which it has graduated around 50,000 students. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...