12 Facts About Edward Bury

Edward Bury was an English locomotive manufacturer.

Edward Bury hoped to supply locomotives to that line, but opposition from the LMR Engineer, George Stephenson, thwarted this.

Edward Bury moved his works to new premises in Love Lane, Liverpool, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and near the Clarence Dock, hence the name 'Clarence Foundry and Steam Engine Works'.

Thereafter, Edward Bury only succeeded in selling one engine, Liver, to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

In 1838 Edward Bury was appointed as locomotive agent and advisor to the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.

Edward Bury immediately sourced two secondhand locomotives and the building of four Forrester singles.

Edward Bury refused to supply locomotives for the steep Lickey Incline, though was contracted to design a stationary engine for the slope.

Edward Bury became Locomotive Engineer on the new Great Northern Railway in February 1848 and created such a good impression that in June 1849 he was appointed General Manager of the line.

Edward Bury had advised on the building of three railway towns, Swindon, Wolverton and Doncaster.

Edward Bury was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers, and a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Edward Bury married on 4 March 1830 Priscilla Susan Falkner, a botanist and illustrator and daughter of a wealthy Liverpool merchant.

Edward Bury retired to Croft Lodge, Ambleside, but became ill in 1858 and died on 25 November at Scarborough.