Edgar Craven Bredin

Edgar Craven Bredin was born in Canterbury on 16 April 1886 and educated at Mountjoy School in Dublin.

In 1905 he was apprenticed to Fielding & Platt in Gloucester and became a pupil at Inchicore in 1907. He was appointed Works Manager at Inchicore in 1925 and was CME of the Great Southern Railway from 1937 to 1942 when he became General Manager. In 1945 he became General Manager of CIE. He died in Dublin on 5 August 1950

Bredin was noteworthy for introducing the largest steam locomotives to ever run on the Irish rail network. These were the 800 Class three cylinder 4-6-0 locomotives. Weighing in at over 130 tonnes, they were a full 20 tonnes heavier than the 201 Class,currently the largest diesel loco running on the IE network.