Study Courses for Railwaymen.

Educational programmes on a really ambitious scale have, this winter, been developed for the benefit of the Home railwayman. The four consolidated systems give employment to approximately 68,000 clerical workers, 32,000 locomotive men, 52,000 permanent-way employees, 24,000 signalmen, and 110,-000 shopmen, in addition to thousands of workers of miscellaneous grades. For all these employees there are special educational helps. Some of the courses—as, for example, those for the clerical workers—are conducted in association with the leading universities. In the case of the technical staffs, the lectures usually are delivered by experts in their own lines. Normally, no charge is made to employees attending the study courses. At the close of the session, examinations are held frequently, and certificates awarded successful entrants. In considering promotion, due regard is paid by the management to any such certificates that may have been won by an aspirant for advancement.

Self-improvement is a sure road to success in the railway world, as in every walk in life.