Robert Urie

Robert Wallace Urie (22 October 1854 – 6 January 1937)[1] was a Scottish locomotive engineer who was the last chief mechanical engineer of the London and South Western Railway.

Following the death of Dugald Drummond in 1912, Urie became chief mechanical engineer until his own retirement at the grouping of 1923.

Robert Urie made a significant contribution to the development of more powerful express passenger and goods locomotives for use on the London and South Western Railway main line, with simple yet robust designs.

His son David Chalmers Urie was a locomotive engineer with the Highland Railway and later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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