Original sentence: Churchward delivered to the GWR from Swindon a series of class-leading and innovative locomotives: arguably from the early 1900s to the 1920s the Great Western’s 2-cylinder and 4-cylinder 4-6-0 designs were substantially superior to any class of locomotive of the other British railway companies.Churchward was born at Stoke Gabriel, Devon and served his apprenticeship in the Newton Abbot works of the South Devon Railway and under Joseph Armstrong in the GWR's Swindon Works where he rose through the managerial ranks, becoming assistant to William Dean in 1897.Collett inherited his legacy of excellent, standardised designs.George Jackson Churchward (31 January 1857 - 19 December 1933) was Chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway of England (GWR) from 1902 to 1922.In 1922 Churchward retired, and C
Edited sentence: Brian Haresnape, Churchward Locomotives (Ian Allan Ltd, 1976).Churchward - A Locomotive Biography (Allen & Unwin, 1975).Colonel H.Denis Griffiths, Locomotive Engineers of the GWR (Patrick Stephens Limited, 1987).George Jackson Churchward (31 January 1857 - 19 December 1933) was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR) from 1902 to 1922.In 1922 Churchward retired, and Charles Benjamin Collett inherited his legacy of excellent, standardised designs.Oswald Nock, GWR in the 20th Century (Ian Allan, 1971).Rogers, G.The brilliant engineer G J Churchward delivered to the GWR from the Swindon Works a series of class-leading and innovative locomotives: arguably from the early 1900s to the 1920s the Great Western’s 2-cylinder and 4-cylinder 4-6-0 designs were substantially superior to any class of locomotive of the other British railway companies