IN A RAILWAY CONTROL OFFICE
Not one railway passenger in a thousand has ever been in a railway control office. Walking, into the one at Crewe to see the people who have their fingers on the fluctuating". pulse of the. strike situation ; (writes a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian"), I was'astonished at the information the establishment gave of trains which were scores of ■miles away. The.situation of every: train is: recorded on a moving behV which, carrying a card bearing a; .description of ™ tram, mov.ed slowly over a huge diagram of-the, whole system. This diagram shows every "running" line, every storage" line, every siding, and every m?rsnal]ing yard"^. s ]ac - where trams may be shunted or made Hn'n t f s soon as train has left a stanhn !■ "J?" m:tlle sjgual-box telephones to the controlVoffice, so that at every minute'-.of. the day you may s" Soooa'p, ?- m°l"I?S mi 'k. train, .those' ET' te whl?h., wo- are sometimes suDjected. on a railway are Eerierallv
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 22
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163IN A RAILWAY CONTROL OFFICE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 22
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