Alfred Andrew Langley
Alfred Andrew Langley (c1841-1904), M Inst C E
1870 Manager and Engineer of the Hereford, Hay and Brecon Railway
1877 Engineer in Chief of the Great Eastern Railway. [1]
1881 Langley's Safety Buffer Stops. [2]
1882 Presented to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers the so-called "Bazin dredger"; this had been worked with great success in the harbour at Lowestoft and elsewhere by Mr. Charles Ball.
1883 Chief Engineer of the Midland Railway
1886 Description, with drawings, of the development of hydraulic buffer stops for railway termini stations, from a Paper read before the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 'The hydraulic buffer-stops with 4 ft. stroke at Liverpool-street and Fenchurch-street stations were fixed about four years ago, and were the first hydraulic buffer stops ever put up, so far as the writer is aware. Hydraulic buffer stops with 2 ft. stroke have recently been fixed at the new Exchange Station of the London and North-Western Railway in Manchester.'[3]
1886 Presented a paper to the Inst of Civil Engineers on use of concrete in construction of Lowestoft Harbour improvements[4]
1904 Died, aged 63, of 33 Chester Terrace, N.W.(?) For 17 years Chief Engineer to the Midland Railway. Proved will: £13,321[5]