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Minister Pledges Aid for Railways
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A GOVERNMENT pledge to aid the I-1 railways to meet competition from road transport was given on Monday by Mr. Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport.
Speaking in Manchester, he said: "In the mid-1960s we shall have a network of trunk roads and motorways which will give greater flexibility, speed and mobility to road transport. The railways will have to meet that competition with determination, commercial skill, financial judgment and technical shrewdness. The Government will do all it can tc) make it possible for the railways to play their part."
On Wednesday an R.H.A. spokesman told The Commercial Motor: "If the railways display the qualities the Minister mentions, hauliers will be happy. But if Mr. Marples means to introduce morelegislation to bolster the railways, it will be opposed bitterly."