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==History==
Wilson was born on 12 August 1820 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the son of John Wilson, a civil engineer and was apprenticed to his father at Edinburgh Waterworks and then articled to Stark and Fulton, mechanical engineers in Glasgow. Early in his career he worked at the Railway Foundry in Leeds for the locomotive manufacturing company E. B. Wilson and Co.<ref name=GG>[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Edward_Wilson Graces Guide]</ref><ref group="note"> Edward Brown Wilson, the owner of E. B. Wilson and Co, was not a relation.</ref>.
Wilson was engaged on the Caledonian Canal under Jackson and Beane, the Glasgow and Ayr Railway and the Hull and Selby Railway. In 1847 he was appointed Locomotive Superintendent of the York and North Midland Railway and in 1853 Engineer-in-Chief on the Midland and Great Western Railway in Ireland.<ref name=GG/>
In 1872 the GWR proposed constructing a railway between Bewdley and Stourbridge instead of the Loop to Kidderminster. Plans for this ultimately unsuccessful scheme were prepared by Wilson and GWR Engineer W.G. Owen.
When the [[Loop Line specification and contract | Loop Line contract]] was let in 1874, Wilson was named in the contract as the ‘Engineer’, with a clause that if he died, the ‘Engineer-in chief’ to the GWR would assume the role. Wilson's death came some 10 months before the Loop Line opened; resident Engineer Mr Tyrell saw the project through to completion.
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