Charles Adlington (c1864- ) of the GWR
1904 Assistant superintendent of the Great Western Railway line
1910 Appointed Superintendent of the Line for GWR in succession to Joseph Morris.[1]
1919 Bio Notes. 'Mr. Charles Adlington has been appointed general manager of the Great Western Railway. Mr. Adlington was born at Tamworth-in-Arden 55 years ago, and commenced his service with the Great Western Railway Company as a booking clerk in 1876, at Knowle. Thence he went to Handsworth to complete his probationary training before being transferred to the clerical staff of the divisional office in Birmingham, in 1879. Two years later he became a member of the northern divisional staff at Chester, and there he remained until 1894, on his promotion to chief clerk in the London divisional superintendent's office. In 1899 Mr. Aldington left the Great Western to become traffic superintendent of the Central London Railway prior to the opening of the "Twopenny Tube." In preparation for the organisation of this novel undertaking as it then was in England, he visited the United States to make a special study of electric traction as applied to railways. Returning to the Great Western in 1903 as an assistant in the general manager's department, he rose rapidly to he assistant to the superintendent of the line before succeeding Mr. Joseph Morris as superintendent of the line in January, 1910. It was under his initiative and direction that the company inaugurated and extended its numerous road and rail motor services. Mr. Aldington has familiarised himself with Continental practice by personal investigation of the systems in France, Germany, and Italy. During, the illness of the late Mr. Potter, Mr. Aldington was acting general manager, and in March of this year he was appointed to the newly-created post of assistant general manager of the company. In this office he is succeeded by Mr. F. J. C. Pole.'[2]