. The ways of our railways . th forefficiency and economy. There are at least 10,000men regularly employed in the carrying outof railway construction in the United Kingdom,in addition to the 66,000 permanent-way menon the engineering staffs of the companieswho look after the maintenance and renewal ofthe tracks. It will be seen that railway employment embracesan immense variety of occupations. In its highergrades it demands the services of professional menof very varied training, whilst in the lower branchesthere is room for all degrees of skill in clerical andmanual labour. I have before me a
. The ways of our railways . th forefficiency and economy. There are at least 10,000men regularly employed in the carrying outof railway construction in the United Kingdom,in addition to the 66,000 permanent-way menon the engineering staffs of the companieswho look after the maintenance and renewal ofthe tracks. It will be seen that railway employment embracesan immense variety of occupations. In its highergrades it demands the services of professional menof very varied training, whilst in the lower branchesthere is room for all degrees of skill in clerical andmanual labour. I have before me a complete list ofthe various classes of employes in the service of theLondon and North-Western Railway Company, andI find that the number of different kinds of employ-ment amounts to no less than 801. In the TrafficDepartment there are 135 classes, including suchunexpected denominations as book-carriers, branders, bullockmen, chain-boys, * de-liverers, hookers-on, iron-counters, rope-shippers, slippers, tariffmen, and winch-. HOT^L PORTERS, EUSTOX, LONDON, L. AND N. \V. K.
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