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in locomotive department, general assistant and two outdoor 

 assistants) ; signal superintendent ; electrical engineer ; 

 rolling - stock superintendent ; carriage superintendent ; 

 waggon superintendent ; stores superintendent ; horse super- 

 intendent ; police superintendent ; marine superintendent ; 

 hotel manager ; and chief medical officer. The total number 

 of persons engaged in these various departments, as carried on 

 in the general offices at Euston station, without reckoning 

 those employed elsewhere, is about 1500. 



For administrative purposes the entire system, with its 

 close on 2000 miles of railway, is divided into a number of 

 districts, each of which is in charge of a district superintendent 

 who is responsible for the working of the trains and the control 

 of the staff in his district. Each district superintendent has 

 an assistant and several travelling inspectors working under 

 his direction, their duty being to visit regularly every station 

 and signal box, and deal with any matters requiring attention. 



In some districts the superintendents are responsible both 

 for passenger traffic and for goods traffic. In this case they 

 are called district traffic superintendents. They report in 

 regard to the passenger business to the superintendent of the 

 line and in regard to the goods business to the chief goods 

 manager. In the most important districts the district super- 

 intendent is relieved of the management of the goods business 

 (except as regards the working of the trains) by other district 

 officers known as district goods managers, or goods superin- 

 tendents, who are responsible to the chief goods manager at 

 Euston. 



In Dublin there is an Irish traffic manager who takes charge 

 of all the interests of the company in Ireland, and there are 

 agents in Paris and New York who look after the Continental 

 and American business. 



The same general principle, as applied to the various 

 districts, operates, also, in regard to individual towns and the 

 management of the stations therein. At the majority of the 

 company's stations there is an agent, popularly known as 

 the station master, who is in charge of both the passenger and 

 the goods traffic ; and at the larger stations the work is divided 

 between a station master who attends to passenger traffic, 

 and is accountable to the district superintendent and a 

 goods agent, who is responsible for the goods work, and is under 



