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Cecil J. Allen

Cecil J. Allen (1886-1973) was a British railway engineer and technical journalist and writer. Allen qualified as a civil engineer and joined the Great Eastern Railway in 1903, later working for the London & North Eastern Railway retiring in 1946.  He inspected new rails for quality. Allen also was the second contributor to the long-running British locomotive practice and performance article series in The Railway Magazine from 1909 to 1958. In addition he was concurrently editor of Trains Illustrated in the 1940s,  Allen wrote numerous books on locomotives, and railway company histories, as well as an autobiography Two Million Miles of Train Travel.

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