Cecil Paget

Also known as Sir Cecil Walter Paget, 2nd Bt., Sir Cecil Walter Paget

Lt.-Col. Sir Cecil Walter Paget, 2nd Baronet, was an English locomotive engineer and railway administrator. He was general superintendent of Midland Railway from 1907 until the First World War. Though his railway career was brief, he was influential in his methods of centralised traffic control at Midland Railway, which soon became the industry standard.

Occupation: engineer
Born: October 19, 1874
Died: December 9, 1936

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Lady Alexandra Osbornespouse Sir Ernest Paget, 1st Baronetfather Sofia Holdenmother

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Sir Cecil Walter Paget (19 October 1874 – 9 December 1936), was an English locomotive engineer and railway administrator. Cecil Paget was the son of Sir George Ernest Paget, Chairman of the Midland Railway Company (MR) 1890-1911. He was born in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, educated at Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then joined the MR as an engineering pupil of S. W. Johnson, the company's Locomotive Superintendent. Paget rose quickly to become Works Manager at the main Derby Works from 1904, under Johnson's successor R. M. Deeley. He was also Deeley's deputy. Promotion April 1907 saw Paget appointed general superintendent of the MR by the new general manager Guy Granet. The role, which would now be called chief operating officer, was expanded from that of the previous 'superintendent of the line' and put him in charge of the daily running of the locomotive department, which was formerly a responsibility of his erstwhile boss, Deeley. The appointment was also open to charges of nepotism against his father. This inevitably led to some friction. Paget locomotive

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Also known as Sir Cecil Walter Paget, 2nd Bt., Sir Cecil Walter Paget

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