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Mr H. Marriott, now chief goods manager of the Lancashire 

 and Yorkshire Railway, delivered the excellent course of 

 lectures which, republished by " The Railway Gazette," 

 under the title of " The Fixing of Rates and Fares," has 

 become a recognised textbook on that subject. 



In 1907 the directors of the same company arranged with 

 the Victoria University, Manchester, for the delivery of a 

 series of University Extension Lectures on railway economics 

 at the Burnley Grammar School, paying the fees of any 

 member of their clerical staff within a radius of twelve miles 

 of Burnley who wished to attend. The subjects chosen were 

 " Organisation of a Railway," " Goods Traffic," " Passenger 

 Traffic " and " Economics," and each subject extended over 

 three lectures. 



In the autumn of 1911 arrangements were concluded be- 

 tween the North-Eastern Railway Company, the University 

 of Leeds and the Armstrong (Newcastle) University for the 

 giving at those Universities of courses of evening lectures on a 

 variety of railway subjects, the company undertaking to 

 pay half the fee for all members of their staff who might wish 

 to attend. 



Finally I would mention, in this connection, that, by 

 arrangement between the Midland Railway Company and 

 the University of Sheffield, a course of 40 lectures on 

 economics, to extend over two years, was begun at the 

 Midland Railway Institute, Derby, on October n, 1911, by 

 Mr Douglas Knopp, the special purpose of the course being 

 to afford to members of the Midland Railway staff an oppor- 

 tunity of studying, free of expense to themselves, the 

 economic features of modern industrial and commercial 

 problems, including transportation. 



Literary societies and lecture and debating societies, formed 

 by various railway staffs, are another outcome of the aspira- 

 tions of railwaymen for wider knowledge and increased 

 efficiency. The Great Western Railway Literary Society, 

 established in 1852, is one of the oldest institutions at Padding- 

 ton. It has a library of 10,000 volumes and various social 

 off -shoots. Another typical institution, the Great Western 

 Railway (London) Lecture and Debating Society, founded 

 in 1904, serves a useful function in affording opportunities 

 for the reading of papers by heads of departments or other 



