J. Lockhart
1896 Joined the Caledonian Railway, where he obtained experience in station booking, station working, accounting, etc. He later served in the various departments of the office of the District Superintendent, Western District, Glasgow, being finally passed as proficient in signalling and other aspects of railway work by the late Sir Guy Calthrop (then General Superintendent, Caledonian Railway), and being appointed Relieving Agent.
1909-18 Worked for the Peking-Mukden Railway, in charge of Passenger Audit in the Accounts Department, and assisted in organising interline traffic in China and international through traffic to and from China with the late Mr. J. E. Foley, then Traffic Manager.
1918 Transferred to the Ministry of Communications, Peking, as Chief Accountant of Railway Clearing House, -which he organised, being later appointed Manager.
1928 On the collapse of the Peking Government, Mr. Lockhart was transferred to Nanking as Adviser to the Through Traffic Administration attached to the Ministry of Communications of the new Chinese National Government, and on the organisation, in October, 1928, of a Ministry of Railways, was transferred to it. He was appointed to take charge of the Traffic Division in the Ministry in December, 1928.
On the outbreak of the Chinese war, Mr. Lockhart organised a Bureau of Railway Statistics, being later promoted Adviser to the Ministry.
1931 Traffic Manager, Great Northern Railway (Ireland).
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