Complex sentence: In 1879 he joined the Great Western Railway, where he rose to assistant manager of the Carriage and Wagon Works and then in 1882 he went to India to join the Great Indian Peninsula Railway as a locomotive inspector.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1879 he joined the Great Western Railway, where he rose to assistant manager of the Carriage and Wagon Works. In 1882 he went to India to join the Great Indian Peninsula Railway as a locomotive inspector.