Facts: - discipline: electrical - death date: 12 october 1945 - education: brasenose college , oxford - birth date: 05 september 1887 - name: charles fairburn - nationality: british - birth place: bradford , yorkshire , england Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of charles fairburn .
charles edward fairburn -lrb- 5 september 1887 -- 12 october 1945 -rrb- was an electrical engineer whose work mainly concerned rail transport .born in bradford in 1887 , and educated at brasenose college , oxford , his career included railway electrification work undertaken in the 1910s at the '' siemens brothers dynamo works ltd. '' , then similar work at english electric in the 1920s where he also was involved in electric traction development work .in 1934 he joined the london , midland and scottish railway where he was responsible for the introduction of new classes of diesel-electric shunting locomotives - he became chief mechanical engineer of the company in the 1940s , but died in 1945 aged 58 .