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MR. WILSON WORSDELL, whose death on April 14 is recorded in the Engineer, was born at Crewe in 1850, was educated at Ackworth, and served a pupilage in the Altoona Locomotive Works of the Pennsylvania Railroad. On returning to this country Mr. Worsdell took up an appointment with the London and North-Western Railway, and in 1883 became assistant locomotive superintendent to the North-Eastern Railway; in 1890 he was appointed chief mechanical engineer of the same railway. Up to the time of his retirement in 1910 he supervised the construction of more than 1000 engines for the North-Eastern Railway.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 105, 239 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105239e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105239e0