The following is a resume of the work of Thomas Heywood in the period 1914 until 1922. [186]
Thomas Heywood was the last Locomotive Superintendent of the GNSR and had a varied experience, not only in this country but overseas.
He had been trained as a pupil under T. Hurry Riches of the Taff Vale Railway and had won a Whitworth Exhibition gold medal for engineering.
His first railway appointment was as draughtsman and inspector at Cardiff.
He left for Burma in 1902, where he became assistant locomotive carriage and wagon superintendent of the Burma Railway.
On his return to Wales, it was again to the Taff Vale, being employed at Penarth. Dock as Chief Assistant Superintendent, in charge of the locomotive depot and the docks machinery.
From Penarth he moved to Cardiff as Chief Assistant Superintendent before going north in 1914 for the chief's post on the Great North of Scotland where he remained until the 1923 amalgamation.
Under the LNER he became Running Superintendent of the Northern Scottish Area.
Following WW1 Heywood was responsible for eight 4-4-0s to his designs.
He subsequently became Mechanical Engineer at Cowlairs following the retirement of Chalmers.
He retired in June 1942 and died at Aberdeen in November 1953.
