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    John Chester Craven (born 1813 in Hunslet, Leeds) was an English locomotive engineer. He was the locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent of the...
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  • African/British businessman John Craven (economist) (born 1949), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth John Chester Craven (1813–1887), locomotive carriage...
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  • Manufacturer Year made Quantity made Quantity preserved Year(s) withdrawn Comments John Viret Gooch (1841–1851) Southampton 2-2-2 16–26 William Fairbairn & Sons...
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  • of The Big Four group of financiers in California. September 11 - John Chester Craven, Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent at London, Brighton...
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    Railway Museum. The earliest 0-4-4's in the UK were well tanks. Both John Chester Craven of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway and James Cudworth...
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  • The following list gives details of locomotives designed by John Chester Craven for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway between his appointment...
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    O.G.C. Drury (1920–1922) John Gray (1846–1847) Thomas Kirtley (February–November 1847) – died in office John Chester Craven (1847–1870) William Stroudley...
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  • He played in The Football League for Chester, where he won a Debenhams Cup winners medal. Craven joined Chester as a youngster from local football and...
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    John Saul Howson (5 May 1816 – 1885), British divine and school master, who served as Dean of Chester Cathedral and Principal of Liverpool College Howson...
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    intended to serve as the principal workshop of the railway, but John Chester Craven decided in 1847 to develop Brighton railway works instead. The L&BR...
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    on five locomotives introduced on the Eastern Counties Railway by John Chester Craven in 1846/7. The 2-(2-2)-2 version was used by Francis Webb of the...
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    for main line locomotives, the following year. During 1860–1861 John Chester Craven, the locomotive superintendent of the London Brighton and South Coast...
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    and March 1880, intended to replace earlier classes designed by John Chester Craven on the heaviest express trains between London and Brighton. They...
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  • on some locomotives introduced on the Eastern Counties Railway by John Chester Craven between 1845 and 1847, and some Crampton locomotives on the South...
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    jennies". Other manufacturers and railways also adopted the type. John Chester Craven, Kirtley's successor at Brighton, built a class of five similar "Jenny...
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  • railway works at the time that William Stroudley took over from John Chester Craven as Locomotive Superintendent in 1870. He cancelled this order and...
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    railway were built to the designs of John Chester Craven, usually at Brighton railway works (see List of Craven locomotives). Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    (LB&SCR) at Brighton works following the enforced resignation of J. C. Craven. When he took office there were seventy-two different classes of locomotive...
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    by his predecessor, John Chester Craven. These included six sets of frames for some 2-4-0 passenger locomotives designed by Craven, and Stroudley produced...
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  • Kingdom Key people James Fenton William Lister Joshua Routledge Benjamin Hick Benjamin Cubitt Charles Todd John Chester Craven Richard Peacock David Joy...
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    London Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) in November 1847, John Chester Craven changed the plan of moving the works to Horley. Carriage construction...
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  • Railway following the dismissal of John Gray, but nine months later he suffered a brain tumor and died. Marshall, John (1995). A biographical dictionary...
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    Craven was a non-metropolitan district in the west of North Yorkshire, centred on the market town of Skipton. The name Craven is much older than the modern...
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    The Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven is an archdiaconal post in the Church of England. It was created in about 1088 within the See of York and was moved...
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    contrary". She is soon sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, whom her father's sister Lilias married. He lives on the Yorkshire Moors...
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    Craven Arms railway station serves the town of Craven Arms in Shropshire, England. Until 1974 it was known as "Craven Arms and Stokesay", named after...
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  • in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Craven Park and compete in Super League, the top tier of British rugby league....
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  • Hampshire Harvey Mansion, New Bern, North Carolina, listed on the NRHP in Craven County, North Carolina Eli Harvey House, Clarksville, Ohio, listed on the...
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    the Scream film series, and the first in the series not directed by Wes Craven, who died in 2015 and to whom the film is dedicated. It is also the first...
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  • comedy-drama film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Chester Morris, Mae Clarke and Frank Craven. A sailor rescues a young heiress who is apparently drowning...
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