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North- Western Railway, who have further arranged for a 

 number of apprentices to attend at the laboratory one after- 

 noon every week to receive instruction, their wages being 

 paid to them as though they were still on duty in the works. 

 There is, also, a mechanics' shop, with lathes, drilling machines, 

 etc., electrically driven. 



Since 1855 the directors of the London and North-Western 

 have given an annual donation of 20 for books to be awarded 

 as prizes to successful students employed in their locomotive 

 department and various other prizes and scholarships, in- 

 cluding Whitworth scholarships, are also awarded. The 

 Institution is affiliated with the Union of Lancashire and 

 Cheshire Institutes, the City and Guilds of London Institute 

 and the Board of Education, each of which bodies holds 

 examinations and awards prizes and certificates. The library 

 has now over 12,000 volumes. 



In addition to the reading-room the Institution has coffee, 

 smoking and recreation-rooms. Special attention is being 

 paid to the social side of the Institution's work through the 

 appointment of a " Teachers' Committee for Social and 

 Recreative Development," the particular purpose of this 

 committee being to organise sports and entertainments and 

 to secure the formation of a literary society. 



At Wolverton there is a Science and Art Institute at which 

 many classes are held, and, although none of these are directly 

 under the management of the London and North-Western 

 Company, as at Crewe, the very successful and numerous 

 courses in engineering subjects and railway-carriage building 

 conducted by the committee of management, working in con- 

 nection with the Bucks County Council, receive the active 

 support and encouragement of the company's directors. 



Science, commercial, art and domestic economy classes 

 are also held at the L. & N.-W. Institute at Earlstown, where 

 definite courses of instruction, in groups of subjects, and ex- 

 tending over at least two years, are given. 



The Great Eastern Railway Mechanics' Institution, estab- 

 lished in 1851 at Stratford New Town, has made generous 

 provision for the education, recreation and social life of 

 employees of that company resident in London, East. The 

 Institution comprises a library of 9000 volumes ; reading- 

 room ; baths (patronised by 10,000 bathers in the course of 



