He was pivotal in the establishment of the National Rail Museum, New Delhi, India and creation of a replica of Locomotion No.

Educated at Stowe School, he suffered a hip injury playing rugby and spent nine months in a hospital where he learned shorthand and typing.

Satow became an engineer and general manager for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), and was a member of the team who built the Wilton Nylon plant on Teesside in 1947.

[7] Satow retired in England and was later involved in the construction of a replica of George Stephenson's 1825 steam engineer Locomotion No.

[2] In addition to his contributions to preservation Satow amassed a collection of notebooks and papers relating to Indian Railways, the information is catalogued by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.