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IANSPORT SECRETARY David well has authorised the first Iction 8 railway grants since a change of Transport Secrery last month, authorising the yment of £161,000 to two mpanies.
4E79,100 grant has gone to A. Williams (Holdings) Ltd for ;charge facilities at a new rail ling at its oil distribution ternal at Preston. This is inlcied to avoid heavy lorry wements in Preston and in ncashire and Cheshire.
knd an £82,500 grant has ne to Arthur Guinness to go yards the cost of replacing a at of special tanks used to nsport stout and lager from e company's Park Royal Imises in London to a packing nt and distribution depot at ncorn.
he Guinness tanks go by BR's ightliner service, thus reducNorth-west London lorry tic.
I spokesman for Guinness I CM that immediate plans olve solely around the use of new tanks to carry the existvolume of rail traffic, but a thcoming review of the distriion system could well result nore traffic being transferred 11 road to rail.