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5. The consolidation of English railways (4). 

 (B) Courses on subjects useful to railway students : 



1. Accounting and business methods. Part I. (30). 



2. Accounting and business methods. Part II. (30). 



3. Methods and applications of statistics (15). 



4. Mathematical methods of statistics : elementary (15). 

 Examinations are held, and certificates and medals are 



awarded to successful students. 



The School of Economics has, also, in its library, a collection 

 of works on transport questions which it believes to be the 

 best of the kind in existence. It comprises no fewer than 

 12,000 books, pamphlets, plans, reports, etc., and, as over 

 5000 of these were presented by Mr Acworth, the name of 

 the " Acworth Collection on Transport " has been given to 

 this unique and invaluable mine of information on every- 

 thing appertaining to railways and transport at home or 

 abroad. 



With the University of Manchester the Lancashire and 

 Yorkshire Railway Company (in addition to what they have 

 done in other directions, as already mentioned) made arrange- 

 ments in 1903 for evening classes on railway economics in the 

 interests of their staff, and these classes have been continued 

 ever since. They are in three-year cycles, and students who 

 go through a complete course have the advantage of receiving, 

 from thoroughly qualified teachers, instruction in the follow- 

 ing subjects : Railway geography and railway history of 

 the United Kingdom and of other leading countries ; economic 

 analysis of the railway business in relation to other businesses ; 

 motor power and rolling stock ; goods traffic ; passenger 

 traffic ; theory of freight rates ; accounts ; Government in 

 relation to railways ; and railway law. 



The directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire pay the fees 

 for any members of their clerical staff within a radius of 

 twelve miles of Manchester who desire to attend these classes, 

 and at the close of each session they grant to three of the 

 most promising of the railway students scholarships which 

 are tenable at the University for a further three years, and 

 allow of attendance during the daytime at the classes in 

 political economy, organisation of industry and commerce and 

 accounting. 



It was in connection with the scheme here in question that 



