He was rapidly promoted and in 1904 was working in General Manager James Charles Inglis's department in the headquarters at Paddington station, working on the railway's marketing campaigns. In 1912 he became head of the Staff and Labour Department, rising to Assistant General Manager in 1919 and finally General Manager in 1921. At the invitation of their national governments, he inspected both Sudanese and Egyptian railways in the 1920s and 1930s respectively.
