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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 8 (November 1, 1934)

Staff Education in Britain

Staff Education in Britain.

Ambitious plans for the education of their employees in railway and allied topics are now being perfected by the Home lines. Staff education in Britain is not alone concerned with the mental improvement of the 90,000 clerical workers employed by the four groups: it also covers the education of almost all grades of the uniformed staffs, from crossing-keepers to station-masters. For the benefit of the lower uniformed grades, classes are conducted at selected centres in such subjects as arithmetic, English composition and geography; while for each distinct class of employees, such as platelayers, signalmen, signal-fitters, telegraph linesmen, and so on, theoretical tuition is given in their own particular field. Locomotive workers have their own special lecture courses, covering almost every phase of locomotive design, construction, maintenance and running.

Employees at out-stations enjoy the benefit of carefully prepared correspondence courses, while at selected points special schools have been established for the training in their spare time of all classes of workers. One of the largest and most successful of these schools is that of the L. & N. E. R. at York. In the signalling section, special training is given in the principles of electrical and mechanical signalling, and of telegraphy and telephony. The syllabus for this course embraces (1) general principles of signalling systems; (2) mechanical signalling; (3) fundamental principles of magnetism and electricity; (4)
Quai D'Orsay Terminal, Orleans Railway, Paris.

Quai D'Orsay Terminal, Orleans Railway, Paris.

electric signalling; (5) telegraphy; (6) telephony; and (7) special studies associated with printing telegraphs, automatic telephones, telephone repeaters, traffic control systems, A.C. track circuits, etc.