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"WEhave reached a decision that the facilities offered by the railways will be, so far as we are concerned, practically unusable. We have agreed in principle to road transport of all our fish as being a more workable plan, but some loose ends have to be tied up. We shall be meeting a road company next week for detailed discussions and then a final decision will be reached." This statement was made by Mr. J. Allison, president of the Hull Fish Merchants Protection Association last week after an extraordinary general meeting at which the impending cuts in fish train services (The Commercial Motor, May 8) were discussed.
The railways plan to reduce fish trains from the four main ports—Grimsby, Hull, Aberdeen and Fleetwood—from 25 to about nine, with onward road carriage from a selected number of railheads.
Road rai ler Progress TN his annual report the chairman of I the Pressed Steel Co. Ltd., Mr. Alex Abel Smith, states that the Roadrailer has recently passed its technical tests by British Railways both in the form of individual units and as a complete train of 50 units.
A British Railways spokesman told The Commercial Motor this week that it was still not known when the pilot commercial service of Roadrailers might start. This service was due to have begun between London and Edinburgh last August. but was postponed because of "technical troubles "—believed to be coupling problems.