Samuel Abbott (engineer)
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Samuel Abbott,
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was an English railway engineer, born in Calverton,
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on 28 March 1842 and died in
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on 17 May 1890. Samuel Abbott was the general manager of the
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at the time of his death.


Life and career

Samuel Abbott was educated at
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after which he joined the engineering staff of the Great Northern Railway under
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in 1864. In 1867 he was appointed to supervise the erection of several large bridges on the Transcaucasian Railway between
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and
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and then employed preparing plans for an extension from Tiflis to
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. Abbott returned to England and rejoined the staff of Richard Johnson at the Great Northern Railway in 1871 where he laid out the line and prepared plans for the
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. Abbott was appointed resident engineer for the section of line between Awsworth Junction in Nottinghamshire and Egginton Junction in North Staffordshire; including
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and Friargate Bridge. After completion of the Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension, Abbott was transferred to
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as the resident engineer for the northern section of the
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; designing and superintending the construction of 20 miles of that railway. After resigning from the Great Northern Railway, Abbott joined the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway in 1885, rising to the position of general manager. He died of
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at the age of 49.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abbott, Samuel 1842 births 1890 deaths British expatriates in Argentina British railway mechanical engineers People educated at Lincoln Grammar School Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) people