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Robert Absalom Thom (14 June 1873-2 November 1955) was the final Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway and became a key figure in the locomotive departments of the company’s successors the Great Central Railway and the London & North Eastern Railway. Thom was born at Aberdeen on 14 June 1873. He attended Robert Gordon’s College in Aberdeen where he received a technical education.

award
Order of the British Empire
birth date
1873-06-14
birth place
Aberdeen
death date
1955-11-02
death place
Ilkley
education
Robert Gordon's College
employer
London and North Eastern Railway, Great Central Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway, Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway

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