17 Facts About Edgar Claxton

Edgar Claxton worked for the British Railways Board and was part of the team which electrified parts of the United Kingdom's mainline railway network in the 1960s.

Edgar Claxton was responsible for "design and procurement of all the equipment, and for the electrification side of the projects".

Edgar Claxton was made an MBE in 1969 for his work.

Edgar Claxton's parents were Edgar "Ted" Claxton, and Nellie Mildred "Helen" Petty.

Edgar Claxton was born in Marylebone on 7 July 1910, and died in Oxford on 13 August 2000.

Edgar Claxton first appeared in the newspapers at the age of two years, having attended a family wedding.

Edgar Claxton attended Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, and in 1939 he gained First Class Honours in engineering at University College London.

At the inquest of 20 July 1928 it was found that the car had stopped before the impact, the motor cyclist had been driving too fast, and that Edgar Claxton was "exonerated from all blame".

Between 1952 and 1975 Edgar Claxton was living at 47 Grange Gardens, Pinner.

In 1937 Edgar Claxton became a technical assistant, appointed by Sir Nigel Gresley to the London North Eastern Railway.

From 1952, Edgar Claxton was the assistant electrical engineer, for the chief electrical engineer's department, British Railways central staff, British Transport Commission.

Edgar Claxton read a paper at the British Railways Electrification Conference in 1960.

Edgar Claxton "was part of the team setting up the first overhead wires for electrification of the mainline railway and was involved in the project commemorated" in the British Railways booklet, Change at Crewe.

Edgar Claxton was "involved in all British Railway electrification projects throughout the country, and [was] responsible for the design and procurement of all the equipment, and for the electrification side of the projects".

Edgar Claxton was "heavily involved" in the electrification aspect of the design of the Channel Tunnel and in the railway electrification systems of Brazil, Romania and Finland.

In 1946 when Edgar Claxton was living in Bath, he was elected an Associate of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and later became a FIMechE.

Edgar Claxton was a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.