Charles Clifford was locomotive superintendent of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRI) from 1895 to 1912. Clifford is attributed with increasing the size and power of the GNRI locomotive stock to match the increasing length and weight of train loads in this period; producing locomotives of that stood comparison with those of the Great Southern and Western Railway.

Biography

Clifford began his railway career as an apprentice to Samuel Wilfred Haughton, leaving the

Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway The Dublin and South Eastern Railway (DSER), often referred to as the Slow and Easy, was an Irish gauge () railway in Ireland from 1846 to 1925. It carried 4,626,226 passengers in 1911. It was the fourth largest railway operation in Ireland oper ...

in 1861. At the

Irish North Western Railway Irish North Western Railway (INW) was an Irish gauge () railway company in Ireland. Development The company was founded as the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway (D&ER) and opened the first section of its line, from to , in 1849. In Dundalk th ...

(INWR) in Dundalk he became Locomotive Superintendent. On the amalgamation on the INWR to the GNR he transferred to the new company under J.C. Park. On Park's retirement in 1895 Clifford took the position of Locomotive Superintendent of the GNR. Clifford retired from the GNR in 1912. He died on 5 September 1927.

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