[3][4] He trained at the Taff Vale Railway under Tom Hurry Riches and won a Whitworth Exhibition gold medal for engineering in 1899.
In 1902, he became Assistant Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Burma Railway Company.
After returning from Burma he again worked for the Taff Vale Railway as Junior Assistant Superintendent at Penarth Dock.
After the 1923 Grouping, Heywood's post ceased to exist but he became Running Superintendent of the Northern Scottish Area of the LNER.
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