Edgar Craven Bredin (16 April 1886 – 5 August 1950) was an Irish mechanical and locomotive engineer and later a railway manager.
Bredin was born in Canterbury on 16 April 1886[citation needed] and educated at Mountjoy School in Dublin.
The GSR became part of Córas Iompair Éireann on 1 January 1945, and in the same year he became General Manager of CIÉ, and retired at the end of 1946.
[citation needed] Bredin was noteworthy for introducing the largest steam locomotives to ever run on the Irish rail network.
These were the GSR Class 800 three-cylinder 4-6-0 locomotives, the design work for which was carried out by Bredin's Chief Draughtsman, H J A Beaumont.