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Off the rails
Page 13 from 22nd January 1983THE SERPELL Report into the financing of British Rail is only of use to the heavy lorry supporters who wanted to turn rail tracks into roads,......
Advice a'plenty
Page 20 from 13th August 1976ALMOST inevitably, there are more advisers on road transport policies than on rail policies in the Department of the Environment, Mr Peter Shore......
Philippa Edmunds, campaigner at Freight on Rail, believes...
Page 16 from 23rd July 2009and rail can complement one another. "It's a question of different modes playing to their strengths," she says. Edmunds endorses the opinion put......
Quarry duo on the rails
Page 12 from 26th November 1992• Two quarry firms are setting up a rail freight service in the West Country which they hope will attract business from other transport operators......
Buses replacing trains
Page 22 from 5th November 1983BRITISH RAIL has been given the green light to substitute guaranteed bus services for some of its remoter loss-making rail services. Transport......
Euro tariffs 'hold back UK road/rail'
Page 12 from 21st December 1995A sharp rise in European rail tariffs from next year will threaten the future development of combined road/rail transport in the UK, warns the Road......
Commons boost for rail freight
Page 17 from 28th July 2005HIGH-PROFILE Labour MP Robin Cook last week tabled an early day motion (EDM) in Parliament calling on the government to do all it can to boost rail......
Increasing road tolls 'will not boost rail freight'
Page 14 from 23rd March 2006It seems that the only way to tempt freight from road to rail is for rail companies to improve their services. Sally Nash reports. PUSHING UP ROAD......
ROAD-RAIL RATES TO BE REVIVED
Page 33 from 30th May 1947N O doubt the proposed machinery to be set up under the Transport Bill would investigate the relationship between road and rail rates, said Mr. A.......
REPLACEMENT BUSES UNDEREMPLOYED
Page 40 from 15th June 1962f r rHE fact is the countryside is adequately provided with transport. What is declining is the degree of use of public transport of all kinds,......