Pakistan Railways Academy () or PRA, is the central training academy for employees of

Pakistan Railways Pakistan Railways is the state-owned railway operator in Pakistan. Founded in 1861 as the North Western State Railway and headquartered in Lahore, it owns of operational track across Pakistan, stretching from Peshawar to Karachi, offering bot ...

History

PRA was originally established as a training school for the employees of the North Western State Railway in

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(now

Faisalabad Faisalabad, formerly known as Lyallpur, is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, second-largest city and primary List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, industrial center of the Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan ...

) in January 1925. The school was shifted to

Walton, Lahore Walton Cantonment is a cantonment area situated in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is named after Sir Cusach Walton, son of British railway engineer Frederick Walton. History Lahore Cantonment with its increasing population and extensions to the bo ...

on 8 March 1929 and named ''Walton Training School'' after Col. C.E. Walton, who was the general manager of the North-Western State Railway at the time. In 1954, the ''United Nations Regional Railway Training Centre'' was established by ECAFE (now ESCAP) at PRA. An ''Advanced Railway Course'' was introduced for the participants from the Railways of ESCAP, the Middle East and African Region. In 1958, the ''Regional Railway Training Center'' was taken over by the

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and renamed the ''Pakistan Inter-Regional Railway Training College or ''PIRRTC''. In 1983, the school was renamed ''Directorate of Research & Training'' by merging several institutions. In 2000, it was renamed to Pakistan Railways Academy. 112 courses have been completed at the school as of the year 2015. More than 1700 students are at the school from more than 40 countries.

Departments

The academy arranges training courses for newly recruited officers and members of the staff of

belonging to various disciplines as well as promotion and refresher courses. The training is imparted through classrooms, model rooms, replicas of the actual systems in vogue on Pakistan Railways and also exposes the students to the actual working of the PR network. The academy spreads over of land, including, area which houses 35 classrooms, 12 model rooms and labs, auditorium, library and 9 hostels. In addition to the above following institutions are also located in the Academy: *Pakistan Railway Police Training School *Railway Accounts Training Center

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External links

* Pakistan federal departments and agencies Pakistan Railways Auditoriums in Pakistan {{Pakistan-rail-transport-stub

History

Departments

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