This list of Chief Engineers is arranged by alphabetical order of railway company name. Links from this list lead to information about these railway companies and people.
Glasgow & South Western Railway, Chief Engineer
| In 1905 | W. Melville |
Great North of Scotland Railway
Great Northern Railway, Chief Engineer
| 1897 - 1911 | A. Ross |
Great Northern Railway of Ireland, Engineer-in-Chief
| 1898 . . . . . | W.H. Mills |
Highland Railway, Chief Engineer
| Until 1863 | Joseph Mitchell,
for proposed Perth & Inverness Railway,
and for Inverness & Nairn Railway, Inverness & Aberdeen Junction Railway and Inverness & Perth Junction Railway | |
| 1863 - June 1865 | Joseph Mitchell's private company,
for same three companies,
which merged to become Highland Railway in June 1865 | |
| June 1865 - 1869 | J.W. Buttle, with title “Superintendent of Permanent Way” | |
| 1870 - 1874 | Peter Wilson | |
| 1875 - 1897 | Murdoch Paterson | |
| 1898 - 1913 | William Roberts | |
| 1914 - 1922 | Alexander Newlands |
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Chief Engineer
| 1894 | W. Hunt | |
| 1897 – 1905 | W.B. Worthington |
London & North Western Railway, Chief Engineer
| – 1886 | S.B. Worthington (Civil Engineer for Northern Division) | |
| Pre-1893 – 30 Sep 1909 | E.B. Thornhill | |
| 1 Oct 1909 – 31 Dec 1922 | E.F.C. Trench |
London & South Western Railway, Chief Engineer
| in 1901 | J.W. Jacomb-Hood | |
| succeeded by | A.W. Szlumper |
London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, Chief Engineer
| Early 1900s | [Sir] Charles L. Morgan |
London, Midland & Scottish Railway, Chief Engineer
| 1 Jan 1923 – 1930 | E.F.C. Trench |
Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, Chief Engineer
| 1890 – 1897 | A. Ross |
Midland Great Western Railway (of Ireland), Chief Engineer
| 1923 | Arthur Bretland |
Midland Railway, Chief Engineer
| 1870 | A. Johnson | |
| 1905 – 1915 | W.B. Worthington |
North British Railway, Chief Engineer
| . . . . . | William A. Fraser | |
| In 1905 | J. Bell |
Engineer-in-Chief of whole NER
| 1854 – 1888 | Thomas Elliot Harrison |
Chief Engineer of Northern Division of NER
| 1888 – 1889 | Alfred Reed Clanny Harrison | |
| 1889 – post 1914 | Charles Augustus Harrison (as Consulting Engineer from 1908) |
Chief Engineer of Central Division of NER (until Central Division abolished in 1899)
| 1888 – 1891 | Joseph Cabry | |
| 1891 – 1899 | William John Cudworth |
Chief Engineer of Southern Division of NER
| 1888 – 1899 | Harold Copperthwaite | |
| 1899 – 1909 | William John Cudworth | |
| 1909 – post 1914 | Cyril Francis Bengough (Engineer for Maintenance of whole line from 1912) |
North Staffordshire Railway, Chief Engineer
| 1886 - ? | George James Crosbie-Dawson |