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Established the Clarence Foundry in Liverpool.
His first locomotive, DREADNOUGHT (0-6-0), was intended for the
Rainhill Trials  of 1829 but was not completed in
time. His second, LIVERPOOL (0-4-0), marked a change in design
as he combined horizontal inside cylinders with a
horizontal multi-tubular boiler . His characteristic
firebox was in the form of a vertical cylinder with
a large domed top. He consistently used inside iron bar frames
rather than the then normal outside wooden frames, or the later
inside iron plate frames. The domed firebox was widely adopted by
other locomotive manufacturers, and from the export of Bury engines
to the USA, bar frames became standard there. He was a strong
advocate of four-wheeled engines, although his firm (which became
Bury, Curtis & Kennedy in 1842) built many large and successful
six-wheelers of their own design. The Clarence Foundry closed in
1851, having built approximately 415 locomotives in addition to
much other machinery.
In 1836 Edward Bury contracted to work the London & Birmingham
Railway’s trains, but this contract system — by which he was to be paid on
a mileage basis, per passenger and per ton — was never implemented and from
1839 he was employed as Manager of the L&BR Locomotive Department. On the
formation of the LNWR he became Locomotive Superintendent of that company’s
Southern Division , but resigned with effect from March 1847.
Later Bury became General Manager and Locomotive Engineer of the
Great Northern Railway . He also advised on the building of three railway
works, Swindon, Wolverton and Doncaster.
His engineering achievements were
recognised when in 1844 he was elected to the Royal Society.
He died in Scarborough on 25th Nov 1858 aged 64.
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