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Charles Edward Fairburn (5 September 1887 — 12 October 1945) was an electrical engineer whose work mainly concerned rail transport.Born in Bradford in 1887 and educated at Brasenose College Oxford his career included railway electrification work undertaken in the 1910s at the Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works Ltd. then similar work at English Electric in the 1920s where he also was involved in electric traction development work.