Education
Born at Ballylough, in County Antrim, William Atcheson Traill was educated at private schools and graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Engineering in 1865 and a Masters in 1873.
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Career
In 1868 he joined the Geological Survey of Ireland, becoming an expert on water supply. Traill devised and patented a conduit system of burying the live rail in a pipe with electrical contact. The expected goods trade never took off, and the line remained until its closure 1949 as a summer tourist railway.
In February 1887 he ran in a by-election in North Antrim as an Independent Unionist, coming in third.
In 1990, the Northern Bank issued a banknote bearing a portrait of Traill.
