Richard Thomas Hall (31 May 1823 – 21 August 1889) was a British railway engineer.
[1] After his pupilage in 1844 Thomas Hall was employed by civil engineer Joseph Locke.
[1] In 1848 he was appointed engineer and superintendent of the 4 ft (1,219 mm) gauge Redruth and Chasewater Railway in Cornwall for the next 20 years.
[2] In 1868,[2] the Cape Copper Mining Company hired Thomas Hall to survey and construct the 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge Namaqualand Railway in the Cape Colony.
When the South African Republic became British territory in 1878, he became maintenance engineer and retired from government service in 1886.