John Whitton (1820, near
Wakefield,
Yorkshire,
England – 20 February 1898), an
Anglo–
Australian railway engineer, was the Engineer-in-Charge for the
New South Wales Railways, serving between 1856 and 1899, considered the Father of New South Wales Railways. Under his supervision, it is estimated that of railway around
New South Wales and
Victoria were completed. Whitton was responsible for the construction of the
Blue Mountains railway line and parts of the
Main Western railway line, in particular the
Great Zig Zag near
Lithgow, and much of the
Great Southern line.