Charles Clifford was locomotive superintendent of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland (GNRI) from 1895 to 1912.[1] Clifford is attributed with increasing the size and power of the GNRI locomotive stock to match the increasing length and weight of train loads in this period; producing locomotives of that stood comparison with those of the Great Southern and Western Railway.[1]
Clifford began his railway career as an apprentice to Samuel Wilfred Haughton, leaving the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway in 1861.[2] At the Irish North Western Railway (INWR) in Dundalk he became Locomotive Superintendent.[2] On the amalgamation on the INWR to the GNR he transferred to the new company under J.C. Park.[2] On Park's retirement in 1895 Clifford took the position of Locomotive Superintendent of the GNR.[3]
Clifford retired from the GNR in 1912.[3] He died on 5 September 1927.[2]