Meakin and Dean
Railway contractors
Initially the partnership of George Meakin and John Dean
Later Meakin's sons George and John Meakin became partners.
Works carried out included:
- Doubling the London and North-Western Railway main line at Watford, including a tunnel
- Tunnel through Primrose Hill for the London and North-Western Railway main line
- Tunnel through Primrose Hill (Belsize) for the Midland Railway
- Extending the London and North-Western Railway to Northampton, including the deep cutting at Roade
- The Bala and Festiniog Railway
- The Alnwick and Cornhill branch of the North-Eastern Railway
- Wirral Railway
- Parts of the Wrexham Mole and Connahs Quay Railway
- Work for the Rhymney and Great Western Railways.