He was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Northern Division of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway but retired in 1925.
[1] He started work on the Great Eastern Railway at Stratford in 1876, where he was a Whitworth Exhibitioner, and after several posts in the running department he was appointed district locomotive superintendent in Norwich in 1891.
He was chairman of the Association of Railway Locomotive Engineers in 1912 and was interested in flange and check rail dimensions.
He further developed the McIntosh 4-4-0 type, introduced the class 60 4-6-0 for freight service, and an extraordinary 4-6-0 with derived motion which was highly unsuccessful.
Following the Grouping, he was appointed mechanical engineer of the Northern Division of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway but retired in 1925.