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A 1920 view of the 'New Shed' at Monument Lane and the additional road laid along side the shed's outer wall. The locomotives seen in the photograph above represent three of the LNWR's five Chief Mechanical Engineers, locomotives of the first and the last not being represented. The three CMEs represented are: Francis Webb, George Whale and Charles John Bowen-Cooke. John Ramsbottom, the first CME of the LNWR was appointed in 1857 having previously been Locomotive Superintendent of the LNWR's Northern Division. His successor was Francis Webb who was appointed in 1871 and who was to dominate the LNWR for more than thirty years before retiring in 1903. His successor, George Whale was only in post for a short time before resigning in 1909 with CJ Bowen-Cooke being appointed in his place. Acknowledged as a man of great talent CJ Bowen-Cooke unfortunately was to die whilst on holiday in Cornwall on 18th October 1920. HPM Beames became the last CME of the LNWR and was only in post for less than fifteen months as the LNWR joined the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway on 1st January 1922 when George Hughes, the L&Y CME and the more senior of the two in terms of duration in office, became the CME of the enlarged company. One year later on 1st January 1923 legislation enacted by the government saw 123 railway companies become four although there existed two joint companies which were ran in partnership between two of the big four companies.
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