The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 3 (June 1, 1939)
Educational Excursions
Educational Excursions.
The four group railways of Britain are always sympathetically interested in youthful desires for education and advancement. A feature of passenger operation nowadays (educational excursions of various kinds) are warmly supported by the youth of the country. A few typical examples along these lines may be of interest. Not long ago the L. & N.E. operated a special long-distance excursion, conveying 150 boy scouts from London on a 1,000-mile tour of England and Scotland. The train consisted of sleeping-cars, dining-cars and kitchens, and every scout was provided
with three good meals a day prepared by the restaurant car chefs. To transform the train into a complete travelling camp, a tuck-shop, cinema car and recreation car were also provided. Various scenic resorts were visited in turn, there was a climb of Britain's highest mountain—Ben Nevis—and the tour also included visits to chemical and steel works, and a seaside camp near Captain Cook's old home at Whitby, in Yorkshire. On the L.M. & S. system, there was recently run a special train from London to Crewe, where 600 schoolboys, members of the Crusaders' Union, went over the famous locomotive shops. By the same company there was organised a tour for university students from Cambridge, covering visits to the locomotive depots at Derby, Inverness, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, as well as the inspection of railway works at Glasgow and elsewhere. Throughout the summer months, all the railways will be running interesting educational excursions and rambles under the guidance of experienced leaders, special trains being run for boys’ clubs, associations, rovers, scouts and other youth movements.
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Central passenger station, Pennsylvania Railway, New York City.