Henry John Wynne
Henry John Wynne (1864-1950) was a railways signals engineer in Scotland, the Netherlands and  New Zealand. Wynne was born in Worcester, England in 1864, and was apprenticed to the manufacturer of  railways signalling equipment McKenzie and Holland of Worcester for seven years in 1878. He was appointed assistant engineer and signalling superintendent to the Highland Railway of Scotland in February 1890. In March 1900 he was appointed Signals Engineer to the government-owned New Zealand Railways; he started on 4 April after visiting America en route to study American signalling practices. He was responsible for the rapid adoption for the Tyers Electric Train Tablet No 7 system on New Zealand single-track lines (the majority of  lines). In 1912 he was elected as a member of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) in the first group of overseas members elected. He retired in 1929, and died in his 86th year in Wellington on 18 July 1950. See also  
Railway signalling in New Zealand

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1864 births
1950 deaths
New Zealand civil engineers
19th-century New Zealand engineers
20th-century New Zealand engineers
New Zealand people in rail transport
Engineers from Worcester, England
British emigrants to New Zealand
New Zealand electrical engineers