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Railways Close Many Livestock Stations
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RITISH RAILWAYS has decided 1--0 that the movement of livestock in small numbers to isolated and widely dispersed destinations by rail is not economic and can be more satisfactorily performed by road. There is, therefore, no longer any justification for maintaining facilities for dealing with this traffic at some 2,500 stations on British Railways; it has become essential to effect a drastic reduction in the number of places where livestock can be dealt with. The number of stations at which there will be facilities to handle livestock by freight train will be reduced to 232.
Tenders Invited THE Minister of Transport has invited tenders for the construction of the principal section of the Port Talbot By-pass. The last date for the receipt of tenders is February 15, 1963.
Pedestrian Milk Float Regulations
From Our Political Correspondent
THE Transport Minister has admitted
that the legal requirements covering operators of pedestrian-controlled milk floats are "perhaps unnecessarily strict."
He has agreed, in a letter to Mrs. Barbara Castle (Labour M.P. for Blackburn) that they might be modified without impairing road safety. He is. now investigating how far the relaxation can go, while ensuring that floats continue to be operated competently and safely, that they are mechanically sound, and that they observe ordinary traffiC laws. "It may be wise," he told Mrs. Castle. "to make the new arrangements experimental to begin with. I will let you know what I have worked out as soon as can."
Report Awaited THE Home Secretary has not yet started to frame regulations designed to prevent accidents similar to the explosion of a chemical carrying vehicle in West Bromwich last February. When he was asked what was being done, Mr. C. M. Woodhouse, the Joint Under Secretary of State, said in the Commons last week that the Minister would give consideration to this question when he had received the report of the investigations being carried out by manufacturers.
, Out of Date
I T was no good the Opposition repeating cries to the effect that the railways were a public service, declared Lord Hailsham during the final stages of the Lords debate on the Queen's Speech. "Of course they are a public service ", he said. "But the question is how long the public have got to put up with nineteenth century public service financed out of the taxpayers' money in the middle of the twentieth century.