Complex sentence: Shortly after being appointed as his successor in 1896, H.M. Beatty drew up detailed designs for a new passenger locomotive for suburban service in Cape Town and placed an order for six of these engines with Neilson and Company in Glasgow.
Split into simpler sentences: Shortly after being appointed as his successor in 1896, H.M. Beatty drew up detailed designs for a new passenger locomotive for suburban service in Cape Town. An order for six of these engines was placed with Neilson and Company in Glasgow.