Professional training sources of the railway profile future specialists in Ukraine (first half of the ХІХ century)

It is investigated the influence of basic events in the railway branch on the formation of the railway transport specialists' vocational education in the first half of the XIX century. It is determined interdependence and mutual influence these events and the vocational training sphere of future specialists. It is proposed two-level division into periods in the history of the railway transport specialists' training on two principles: the branch - chronological and the educational ? chronological ones.