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Francis Fox was an English civil engineer born in Derby in the nineteenth century.

The son of Sir Charles Fox he was responsible for the bridges over the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi and Sydney Harbour, the Mersey Railway Tunnel and the Liverpool Overhead Railway.

He was an engineer for the Great Central Railway and in 1889, collaborated with between Douglas Fox and H W Braddock in building Marylebone statuion

He was also one of the consultants for the Simplon Tunnel and, in 1878, built the replacement train shed at Bristol Temple Meads

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