8o SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF YORK AND DISTRICT 



There are seven different stages, consisting of : 

 Stage I. Building the floor on the underframe. 

 ,, 2. Assembling body-sides or quarters fully glazed, body ends 



and partitions. 

 ,, 3. Roof fitted. 



,, 4. Roof made waterproof by covering with canvas and white 



lead. 

 ,, 5. Hanging platform doors. 



,, 6. Varnishing exterior. 



„ 7. Again varnishing the exterior. 



At Stage 3 the interior work begins and continues until the body reaches 

 Stage 7, when the coach is ready for going into the Varnish Shop for final 

 varnish. The gangs preparing the component parts are arranged adjacent 

 to the stage at which the parts are required, the labourage thus being reduced 

 to a minimum. The panelling is given two coats of varnish prior to being 

 erected at Stage 2. All the body platform doors are first fitted into a steel 

 jig, which is an exact replica of the standard doorway, thus making all body 

 doors interchangeable. 



Paint Shop. 



Repair Shop, run, as in the case of the Building Shop, on a progressive 

 system. 



Brake Shop. 



Lifting Shop, where all running gear is overhauled, containing a wheel 

 balancing machine, two Journal Live-Centre Turret Lathes, two remarkable 

 Craven Wheel Lathes and a spring-testing machine. 



Electric Shop. Lighting is now almost universally electric. 



Plumbers' and Brass-finishers' Shop. 



From the bloom and the log to the finished carriage — the complete 

 metamorphosis is here performed. Everything has been speeded up, 

 yet standards have been imposed which more than maintain quality. 

 Thus are ensured the safety and comfort of the travelling public, for which 

 the British railways have always held a most enviable reputation. 



The L. & N.E.R. Signalling School. 



The rapidly extending use of electrical signalling methods has brought 

 with it an ever-increasing difficulty in finding men with the necessary 

 knowledge and experience to maintain the new electrical installations as 

 they are brought into use. The mechanical signal fitter previously in 

 charge of the mechanical installation at a given place has rarely sufficient 

 technical knowledge to be put in charge of the new electrical installation ; 

 consequently an electrical signal fitter from the electrical construction 

 gang has to be stationed at the new installation for maintenance purposes ; 

 as there may be also in the same locality a telegraph lineman to maintain 

 the telegraph and telephone installation, it is possible to have in the same 

 neighbourhood three men of different grades dealing respectively with 

 the closely allied works of the maintenance of mechanical signalling, 

 electrical signalling, and telegraphs. 



It would obviously open up a much wider and more attractive field of 

 effort for the staff, and be an economy from the Company's standpoint as 

 well, if men could be trained to carry out all three classes of work in any 



