Organization Of Railways
By S. C. Ghose
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Organization Of Railways - S. C. Ghose
Organization
OF
Railways
Railway organization is something like Army organization. When an Army is in active service, it is essential that more or less complete authority should be given to every officer in his own work, but at the same time the Army as a whole should be placed under a supreme command. It is like a large staff, consisting of many departments each specialized on a distinct function but under a supreme control.
Traditional business arrangements, it is argued, follow the lines of organization of an Army, in which each one receives his instructions from the same organisation.
The Divisions and Brigades of an Army are complete units by themselves, and the Commanding Officer of a Division or a Brigade controls all departments although each department in its function is wholly different from the other. For instance, the functions of the Sappers and Miners are quite different from those of the Supply and Transport although the latter requires a great deal of work to be done by the former before the latter can operate.
American Railway Organization.
The American Railways have followed the principle of Army organization, and each Division is a complete unit in itself; all the departments of a Division are under one head. As in the Army the Commanding officer is not a technical man so in Railway organization it is not essential that the Divisional Superintendent should be a technical man. The essential qualification for such a man is the power of organization and control and capacity to maintain order and discipline and to get the best out of each man. He must have intimate knowledge of transportation work and just a general idea of Railway working in other branches will suffice.
On American Railways the organization is generally as follows:—The Railways are company-owned. Therefore, there is a Board of Directorate and a number of Directors. Then there is a President, under whom there are Vice-Presidents; the President and the Vice-Presidents are usually working members, and while the President is responsible for the entire Railway system in all its branches, the various Vice-Presidents have separate portfolios. One may be in charge of traffic or the commercial department; another in charge of the treasury and accounts; and a third responsible for construction of railways; and a fourth in charge of the operation of the railway and so on.
First and foremost we shall deal with the operation of the railway. In America, the General Manager of a Railway is in charge of the Operative Department only. He has nothing to do with the procuring of traffic or with fixing of rates and fares.
This General Manager has the following staff officers at his Head-quarters:—
(a) Chief Civil Engineer for the open line permanent way (or the track or road bed) and all office, station, and other buildings (including the buildings in which workshops are located) and bridges.
(b) Chief Mechanical Engineer for all machinery and plant, locomotives, carriages and wagons, cranes, etc. (their building, erection and overhauling are done in the Railway Workshops under this Engineer).
(c) General Superintendent of Transportation or Operation who controls everything essential to transportation. He is in charge of Station and Yard service;
the cleaning and handling of engines and petty repairs in Running Sheds, i.e., the sheds where engines are stabled at the end of each run and are looked after; and of carriages and wagons, their movement and repairs, the movement of trains, the receiving, loading, hauling, unloading