Benjamin Conner

Benjamin Conner (1813–1876) was a Scottish locomotive engineer who served as Locomotive Superintendent of the Caledonian Railway at St Rollox Works, Glasgow, from 1856 until his death in office. He gave the Caledonian its first generation of standard-gauge express engines and laid out St Rollox as a modern locomotive works.

Born at Glasgow on 11 November 1813, Conner served his apprenticeship in the Glasgow engineering trade and entered Caledonian service in the 1840s. His most numerous design was the Conner 8-foot 2-2-2 single (1859) for the Caledonian's Anglo-Scottish expresses, a powerful and elegant machine that worked the boat trains to Greenock and Wemyss Bay.

Conner died in service on 29 November 1876 and was succeeded by George Brittain.