Richard Christopher Mansell (October 1813 in Liverpool – 25 May 1904 in Long Marton, Westmorland) was an English railway engineer.
Mansell was carriage superintendent for the South Eastern Railway at Ashford by 1851, and later works manager for the SER.
When James Stirling was appointed in 1878, Mansell resumed the post of works manager until his retirement from the SER in January 1882.
[1][page needed] Use of this design in preference to other methods of affixing tyres to wheels was often indicated following tyre and/or wheel incidents resulting in accidents by investigating officers of the Board of Trade, most notably following the accidents at Hatfield on the Great Northern Railway on Boxing Day (26 Dec) 1870 and Skipton-on-Cherwell on the Great Western Railway on Christmas Eve 1874.
He married his second wife, Emmeline Aldgate Clark, 29 August 1833, St. Pancras, London - 29 August 1912, Long Marton, Westmorland at Camden Haverstock Hill Holy Trinity on 14 April 1874.