Given the question: Facts: - discipline: mechanical engineering - spouse: margaret grant - children: louisa mary brittain and four others - birth date: 1821 - name: george brittain - nationality: british - birth place: chester , england Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of george brittain .
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george brittain -lrb- born 1821 , chester , england -rrb- was locomotive superintendent of the caledonian railway from 1876 to 1882 , between benjamin connor and dugald drummond .previously he had been locomotive superintendent of the dundee , perth and aberdeen junction railway -lrb- 1859 -- 63 -rrb- and assistant to alexander allan on the scottish central railway -lrb- 1863 -- 65 -rrb- .outdoor superintendent , caledonian railway -lrb- 1865 -- 76 -rrb- and assistant/deputy to the incumbent and ailing conner .in common with many of his professional contemporaries he described himself as a civil engineer in 1861 and 1871 but as a mechanical engineer -lrb- locomotive superintendent -rrb- in 1881 .