Sentence:  The Met's chairman, Sir Edward Watkin, was also chairman of that company <small>[the Manchester,Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway]</small>, which duplicated other railways' routes in an <WSD>inchoate</WSD> way between Manchester and Grimsby, and generally stumbled about the north. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.