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Salient. Special Salient Issue. Careers Information Week. 1961

Scope for Imagination, Ingenuity, Drive, and Skill

Scope for Imagination, Ingenuity, Drive, and Skill

There's no monotonous grind in railway engineering. Rarely are any two jobs entirely alike. Railway engineering — civil, mechanical signal, or electrical — offers scope for talents in both the technological and administrative fields. The principal openings for university graduates in the Railways Department are in the engineering profession, although greater interest is now being taken in university qualifications for those who will concentrate on the administrative and operational side of transport. The Railways Department is concerned with transport of all kinds—rail, road, air, and sea—and those who aspire to managerial positions will find it essential to grow up with the organisation, gaining as wide an experience as possible in its various aspects.

With the present rapid pace of technological development, the Railways Department constantly needs trained engineers. In New Zealand, as elsewhere, the chal[unclear: lenge] of the changing pattern of transport demands the progressive modernisation of rail and road transport facilities and equipment.

The introduction of new and improved forms of motive power, the [unclear: relocation] and strengthening of [unclear: track] and bridges, the design of modern marshalling yards, attractive new station buildings and offices, and neat, functional goods sheds and workshops, and the provision of the most modern electrical signalling and telecommunications equipment: all these are just some of the developments with which railway engineers are associated. With this increasing technological progress, New Zealand Railways—the nation's largest undertaking, with a staff of 24,000—has much to offer in the way of rewarding and satisfying careers.