Szlumper, Sir James Weeks
Born in Soho London (e-mail from relative who has seen record of baptism
which states this location and not Wavertree as stated by
Marshall) on 29 January 1834 and died
in Kew on 26 Ocrober 1926. Served an engineering apprenticeship in London
and then worked for Hamilton Fulton on the Manchester & Milford Haven
Railway, taking over from Fulton when he died in 1861. He was engineer of
the Aberyswyth to Devil's Bridge line and much of the Barry Railway. He was
elected mayor of Richmond in 1894 and was knighted by Queen Victoria in the
same year. He was High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1898. His omission from
the ODNB makes this "reference work" look ever more like an off-shoot of
Crockford. In Chrimes pp. 673-4:
entry by Chrimes and Michael Bishop, (includes portrait).
Most of above from Marshall.
Peter Johnson in An illustrated
history of the Great Western narrow gauge mentions that the Szlumper
family came from Poland. Michael Messenger
Light railwayus before 1896. J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2013 (218)
2.
Szlumper, Alfred Weeks
Marshall notes
that born Milford Haven on 24 May 1858 and died 11 November 1934. Chief engineer
LSWR (responsible for major reconstruction of Waterloo Station) and first
Chief Engineer of Southern Railway. Excellent concise biography by Michael
Bonavia in Oxford Companion.
Son became General Manager of Southern Railway.
Nock, O.S. Railway enthusuast's
encyclopedia
Szlumper, Gilbert Savill
Born 18 April 1884: died 19 July 1969
(Marshall)
Son of Alfred W. Szlumper, Chief Engineer of the Southern
Railway, and trained under his father as an Engineer, but became Assistant
General Manager and from 1937 General Manager of the Southern Railway. Excellent
short biography by Gordon Biddle in
Oxford Companion.
Nock, O.S. Railway enthusuast's
encyclopedia. In 1942 appointed Director-General Supply
Services to Ministry of Supply:
Locomotive Mag., 1942,
48, 206.
