Building skills for the future

摘要

WITH railway preservation closing in on the 60-year mark, it is becoming vitally important the skills developed by Victorian and Edwardian railway engineers are passed down to successive generations. Boiler repairs, carriage repairs and infrastructure maintenance are some of the skills, but from more recent times come the techniques needed to repair and maintain diesel locos and multiple units. You can't plug in a computer to address these problems and find out where the fault is!