Railway Station Service Classic Reprint

Download or read book Railway Station Service (Classic Reprint) written by B. C. Burt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railway Station Service Not designed as a manual explaining merely in a matter-of-fact way, either in complete detail or in outline, what things must be done at a railway station and how to do them, the present book, while stating with some fullness the leading features of railway station service as matters of prescribed routine, attempts to give also some insight into the general condition, spirit and principles of such service. It is a fact, familiar to every agent of experience, that the station man is depended upon by his superior officers not merely for a proper knowledge and application of his company's rules, but, in addition, for information and for well-advised opinions on a multitude of matters not covered by those rules; and the agent is well aware of the fact that his services are of value to his company very much in proportion as he is able to meet this additional demand. Furthermore, in recent years, legislation regarding railway matters has been such that the agent has been rendered in a measure independently responsible, so that it behooves him to become informed as to conditions under which he is placed, not by his company in the first instance, but by federal and state laws. And, again, the public whom the railway serves looks to the agent as its chief informant and adviser in matters relating to the business of shipping and of traveling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.