page_title: John Aspinall (engineer)
hierarchical_section_title: John Aspinall (engineer)
context_page_description: Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall was an English mechanical engineer who served as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway of England. He introduced vacuum brakes to his locomotives in Ireland, a trend which was followed in Britain, and designed several locomotives. He was also president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
context_section_description: Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall (25 August 1851 – 19 January 1937) was an English mechanical engineer who served as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) of Ireland and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) of England.  He introduced vacuum brakes to his locomotives in Ireland, a trend which was followed in Britain, and designed several locomotives. He was also president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
caption: by George Hall Neale c.1920
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