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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 3 (August 1, 1931)

Railway Education Up-to-date — (From Our London Correspondent.)

Railway Education Up-to-date
(From Our London Correspondent.)

The new London Underground Railways school, which was opened recently, is divided into two sections, one a signalling department and the other a train equpment section. Both the York and London establishments are equipped with lengths of model track and complete signalling installations to illustrate the lectures. At York the operating course consists of twenty lectures by skilled instructors, and the school has a seating capacity of sixty students. Through the London Underground Railways school there will annually pass something like 5000 men, the courses covering not only instruction to new entrants to the various grades, but also refresher courses for signalmen, linesmen, drivers, and others engaged in train operation. It was a one-time L. and N.E. Railway official who defined education as the art of producing “broad men sharpened to a point.” At the new schools at York and London the L. and N.E.R. and the Underground Railways are performing wonders in this direction.

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