page_title: Matthew Kirtley
section_title: Midland Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Matthew Kirtley / Career / Midland Railway
caption_attribution_description: lancs derbys and east coast railway carriage built 1896
context_page_description: Matthew Kirtley was born at Tanfield, Durham. He was an important early locomotive engineer.
context_section_description: In 1839 he was appointed first a locomotive foreman, and then in 1841 Locomotive Superintendent of the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway. When that railway became one of the constituents of the Midland Railway, he became the Midland's Locomotive Superintendent. He was there Chief Mechanical Engineer from 1844 until he died in 1873. Hundreds of locomotives to his design existed, many of which were to last into the days of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, some fifty years later.
caption: A railway carriage built (it is said in 1876) by Matthew Kirtley for the Metropolitan Railway
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