VII 



LOCOMOTIVE PRACTICE AFTER THE GROUPING 



AT once it may be said that the prophecy 

 of the experts before the grouping has 

 largely come true viz., that it has been a 

 period of settling down without any far- 

 reaching changes in locomotive designs. In 

 each of the four groups we have chief 

 mechanical engineers in charge who, at the 

 grouping, were at the head of individual 

 railways forming those groups. Thus, Sir 

 Henry Fowler 1 of the London, Midland and 

 Scottish, had long been in the chair at Derby, 

 looking to the interests of that famous stud 

 which ran under the Midland colours; Mr. 

 Henry Gresley, who was chief of the Great 

 Northern locomotive department, holds the 

 wider sway on the London and North- 

 Eastern; Mr. Maunsell was at Ashford in 

 charge of the South-Eastern and Chatham 



1 Since promoted to a high executive post. 

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