Raspberry for BR
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• "This is a perfect example of how fatuous are some of the proposals in the Transport Bill", said Mr. Ellis Bebbingtort, National Farmers' Union transport officer, 'addressing a meeting of Hampshire growers at Botley. H ants. on Monday.
Mr. Bebbington was referring to the fact that the British Railways Board had informed him it could not, as promised. accommodate strawberries on the earlier Glasgow-bound Freightliner services, which arrive in time for the following day's market.
"This makes nonsense of that part of the Bill where, with the avowed intention oi diverting traffic to rail. operators of larger vehicles journeying over 100 miles would need special authorization, to which British Railways would have the right to object". Mr. Bebbington said.
"With the strawberry season fast approaching, a fresh start will now have to be made in a search for alternative means of transport ii Glasgow is to receive fresh strawberries as in past seasons.
-Since rail services for horticultural produce are steadily deteriorating in most parts of the country, one is left wondering whether the authors of the proposed legislation have the slightest idea of the bureaucratic monster they propose to let loose."