Keith Walter C. Grand (1900–1983) was Assistant General Manager of Great Western Railway and later General Manager and Chief Regional Officer of British Railways Western Region. He was also a member of the

British Transport Commission The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the se ...

, Grand was born in 1900 in the

Mossley Hill Mossley Hill is a suburb of Liverpool and a Liverpool City Council ward. Located to the south of the city, it is bordered by Aigburth, Allerton, Childwall, and Wavertree. At the 2001 Census, the population was 12,650, increasing to 13,816 a ...

district of Liverpool the son of Canadian-born Douglas and Emma Grand. He joined the Great Western Railway in 1919 after he left the

Rugby School Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. ...

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Great Western Railway people British Rail people People educated at Rugby School 1900 births 1983 deaths {{UK-rail-transport-stub