John Wallace Pringle
Colonel Sir John Wallace Pringle,
Early life
Pringle was born in
Early career
Pringle became a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1883.[3] As an army officer, Pringle fought in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, 1885–1886.[4] In the Uganda railway survey between 1891 and 1892, Pringle was second in command to
In 1896, he was appointed as the superintending engineer on the survey and construction of the
Inspecting officer
Pringle had reached the rank of Major in 1900 when he was appointed an inspecting officer in the Board of Trade. At the start of World War I in 1914, he was appointed a deputy director of railway transport with the temporary rank of Colonel. In 1916 he was confirmed in this rank when he returned to the Board of Trade as Chief Inspecting Officer. When the Ministry of Transport was formed in 1919, he was transferred to the new ministry with his department, retaining his position as Chief Inspecting Officer until his retirement in 1929.[3]
Pringle conducted various accident inquiries, including that into the Sevenoaks derailment of 24 August 1927. He chaired a committee to investigate the general adoption of automatic train control on British railways, following the adoption of an electro-mechanical system on the Great Western Railway (GWR), reporting in April 1922. He chaired a second committee on the same subject that reported in 1930, but little was done outside the GWR. He was Chairman of the Electrification of Railways Advisory Committee, which reported in 1928.[6]
Pringle was made a
References
- ^ "Obituary: Colonel Sir J. W. Pringle". The Times. 18 July 1938. p. 14.
- ^ India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947
- ^ a b c d "Sir John Wallace Pringle" (PDF). Proceedings. Institution of Railway Signal Engineers: 13. September 1938. Retrieved 10 July 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Uganda Railway Survey diaries". Janus. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
- ISBN 1-85725-206-3.
- ^ a b "Inspecting Officers (Railways) – Pringle, [Sir] John Wallace". SteamIndex. Retrieved 10 July 2011.