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New Undertaking on Liner Train Depots
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From our Industrial Correspondent
ANEW undertaking that access to the railways' liner trains must be open to private road hauliers was given last week by Mr. Stanley Raymond, chairman of the British Railways Board. Speaking at Derby, Mr. Raymond said that with the co-operation of railway men the service could play a major part in modernizing Britain's export and import business.
Containers would give "compatibility between road, rail and ships, which many people see as the inevitable need in providing safe, speedy transport with the minimum of handling risk of damage and pilferage ". But compatibility had to be complete, said Mr. Raymond, and the railways must be free to accept traffic
brought to its trains, regardless of who owned or drove the road equipment involved. All thinking railwaymen, he felt sure, would see the trains as the means of helping to restore the prosperity of the railway industry.
"But this involves a partnership with other forms of transport if we are to obtain the proper benefits ", Mr. Raymond added.
Meanwhile, experimental liner trains carrying varying . quantities of commercial freight have been running between London and Glasgow for the past fortnight and in spite of the bad weather, particularly 'in the north of England and in Scotland, have established a good record for timekeeping. In fact, it was the bad weather, which held up some of its own lorries, that gave liner trains their first cargo from a private road haulage firm, Tartan Arrow Service Ltd. About 60 tons of freight, loaded in containers, was sent from London to Glasgow and a smaller consignment in the opposite direction. To avoid union trouble, the containers were collected and delivered by B.R.
Powell Show : More than a dozen COrnmer and Karrier exhibits, together with some from other companies, including Hands, Primrose and Anthony Hoist, will be shown by Ray Powell Ltd. at the company's depot at Roding Lane North, Woodford Green, Essex, from December 6 to 10. The exhibition will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 pin. daily.