• John Urpeth Rastrick (26 January 1780 – 1 November 1856) was one of the first English steam locomotive builders. In partnership with James Foster, he formed...
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    Foster, an ironmaster, and John Urpeth Rastrick, an engineer, became partners in 1816, forming the company in 1819. Rastrick was one of the judges at the...
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    of 1839. It was designed by the principal engineer for the line, John Urpeth Rastrick. The architect of the London to Brighton railway, David Mocatta is...
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  • during the 1780s. January 26 – John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company (died 1856). October...
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  • opens for coal traffic. June 24 – James Foster and John Urpeth Rastrick partner to form Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that will build the...
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  • British railways with GMT hand-carried on chronometers. John Urpeth Rastrick retires from Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first...
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  • Railroad (b. 1787). November 1 - John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company (b. 1780). Rivanna Chapter...
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  • Rastrick is a village in West Yorkshire, England. It may also refer to: Rastrick High School John Urpeth Rastrick, an English steam locomotive builder...
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    Hastings Railway by the locomotive engineer and railway architect John Urpeth Rastrick, the sharply curving structure has 27 arches and about 10 million...
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    Foster formed a subsidiary partnership with John Urpeth Rastrick in Stourbridge which traded as Foster, Rastrick and Company. The company was in existence...
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    Catch Me Who Can was constructed during 1808 by the engineers John Urpeth Rastrick and John Hazledine at their foundry in Bridgnorth, England. It was demonstrated...
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    cast iron bridge (design 1812), redesigned and built in 1816 by John Urpeth Rastrick Plymouth Breakwater (1812–1841) completed by his son Southwark Bridge...
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    constructed by Foster, Rastrick and Company, which was a partnership between James Foster and the engineer John Urpeth Rastrick. The name Agenoria was...
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    of the trials. Three notable engineers were selected as judges: John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge, Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer...
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    the horse-drawn Stratford and Moreton Tramway. It was designed by John Urpeth Rastrick. It consists of eight elliptical arches, and is made from brick,...
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    new locomotive called Catch Me Who Can, built for him by John Hazledine and John Urpeth Rastrick at Bridgnorth in Shropshire, and named by Davies Giddy's...
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    Calder Navigation and on railway surveys. From 1837 he worked for John Urpeth Rastrick on railway projects including the London and Brighton Railway and...
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    China, born in Buller's Green, Morpeth John Peacock (c. 1756–1817), piper, born in Morpeth John Urpeth Rastrick (1780–1856), railway engineer, born in...
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    on 29 July 1844. The work was started by September, engineered by John Urpeth Rastrick. The route crossed a valley with the London Road viaduct and then...
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    newly enlarged layout also accommodating the South Eastern Railway. John Urpeth Rastrick claimed to have suggested the idea to Hutton Gregory. The semaphore...
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    inconvenient for travellers to and from Westminster. As early as 1842 John Urpeth Rastrick had proposed that the railway should build a branch to serve the...
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    Linus Pauling John Penn Robert Baden-Powell Srinivasa Ramanujan John Urpeth Rastrick John Robinson McClean John Rennie Joshua Reynolds John Scott Russell...
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    between May and August 1841. The platform accommodation was built by John Urpeth Rastrick and consisted of four pitched roofs each 250 ft long (76 m). It opened...
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    laid at Hassocks on 4 February the following year. The engineer was John Urpeth Rastrick and the stations were designed by David Mocatta. In total, around...
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    large new station were drawn up, designed jointly by Lewis Cubitt, John Urpeth Rastrick and Henry Roberts. Drawings were published in the Illustrated London...
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    The Blenkinsop engines remained at work for thirty years: when John Urpeth Rastrick and James Walker visited the line on the behalf of the Directors...
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  • manufacturing company was headed by James Foster (1786–1853) and John Urpeth Rastrick (1780–1856). 1835: Der Adler the first steam locomotive in Germany...
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    was opened in 1839. The engineer for the Brighton extension was John Urpeth Rastrick, who began construction of the 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) line in 1838...
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    railway line is the Ouse Valley Viaduct. Designed and engineered by John Urpeth Rastrick (1780–1856) in consultation with the talented architect David Mocatta...
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  • built in 1808. In 1807, John Hazledine entered into partnership with John Urpeth Rastrick, to form the company Hazeldine and Rastrick but the partnership...
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