Education of Railway Personnel.

In difficult times such as these, the education of the individual railwayman is not an affair to be neglected. To meet the problems of the future, highly-educated men are demanded in the railway world, and in Britain considerable attention is now being paid to the education of the personnel of the four group lines. Wonderfully well equipped schools for the education of their staffs are maintained at selected centres by the Home railways. The York schools of the L. and N.E. Railway, and the Lambeth schools of the London Underground Railways, are two especially fine modern establishments that are performing rare service in the education of railwaymen of all grades.

It is possible for the keen Home railwayman to attain the most responsible of positions; and while all obviously cannot become leading executives, there is ample scope for everyone who shows himself a tryer. Promotion is usually based upon competitive examination at the outset, and young men who show exceptional ability are given unusual opportunities for securing an all-round knowledge by transfer from department to department.

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