Friday 4 January 2019

Walton Training School Located at Walton Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Our administration is much pleased to post the photographs of commemoratives brass plate preserved in glass case and British times grand beautiful building of Walton Training School built in 1929 A. D Located at Walton Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It housed temporarily at Lyallpur
from 12th January 1925 to 18th July 1929 and then shifted to this purpose built building in Walton Lahore. It was inaugurated On March 8th 1930
By H.E. SIR GEOFFREY FITZ HARVEY da MONTMORENCY
KCSI, KCIE, KCVO, CBE, ICS
The then Governor of the Punjab,
COL. C. WALTON DSO
the Agent of the North-Western Railway, A.M. HAYMAN ESQ, OBE
Member of the Railway Board and other highly ranked British Officers. ARIBA was the Architect and R.S.D.C. VERMA was Executive Engineer. In different eras, it was renamed as North Western Railway Training School, Pakistan Inter-Regional Railway Training College and Directorate of Research and Training. Now it is renamed as Pakistan Railways Academy from the year 2000. Pakistan Railway Academy Walton Lahore conducts Induction training and refresher courses for officials of various deciplions of Pakistan Railway and other countries.



It is written on inauguration brass plate of Walton Training School Lahore which is well preserved in glass case:


' This tablet commemorates
The inauguration of
THE WALTON TRAINING SCHOOL
NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
On March 8th 1930
By
H.E. SIR GEOFFREY FITZ HARVEY da MONTMORENCY
KCSI, KCIE, KCVO, CBE, ICS
Governor of the Punjab
A.M. HAYMAN ESQ, OBE
Member of the Railway Board
And
COL. C. WALTON DSO
Agent of the North-Western Railway
Board of Direction
F.C. PAVRY, ESQ, FCH, CIE
COL. C.S.M.C. WATSON DSO, OBE
J.H. CHASE, ESQ
M.S. GREGORY ESQ, MD, VD
A.K. MUIRHEAD, ESQ
A.P. MANNING, ESQ, CIE, OBE, MC
Secretary
__
C.C. RYAN, ESQ, Superintendent
R.W.M. VALLIS, BA
ARIBA, Architect
R.S.D.C. VERMA
Executive Engineer
This school was opened in………….. on 14th September 1929
having previously been housed
 temporarily at Lyallpur
from 12th January 1925 to 18th July 1929.'


Photographs By Sir Veer Shuaib Raza Sahib



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