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Railways Must Finance Their Own Development
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id ERE can be only one golden rule
rfo r railway management; treat the job as if it were your personal business and keep uppermost in mind that to stay in business the railway must pay its way and finance its own capital developments. That this happy position is not being attained at present is beside the point. It must and will be attained," Mr. David Blee, general manager of the London Midland Region of British Railways, told the Institute of Transport in London on Monday in a paper on "Aspects of Railway Management."
Mr. Blee described how electronic computers could be used by the railways. A method of feeding timing information for passenger trains over a limited section of line had been devised, and it was now possible for a computer quickly to time a special train through a group of existing trains, and to indicate the extent to which there would be repercussions on succeeding trains in the group.
The application of work study had shown that for every man employed on a job before it was applied, at least £50 a year could be saved if the redundancy problem could be dealt with, The London Midland Region had some 170,000 staff, and on this basis a saving of £8m. to £.9m. was possible through work study.
Steps had been taken to improve the appearance of the British Transport Commission's 15,358 railway road vehicles. It was recognized that they should always be spick and span, and a new livery was to be tried out at a southern depot.
SIMMS' AIR SERVICE
AN emergency spare parts service for coaches touring the Continent has been instituted by Simms Motor Units, Ltd., in conjunction with Air Charter, Ltd. Continental agents at strategic points already hold units and spares, but now further stocks are being kept for emergency calls at Southend Airport_ They can be delivered anywhere within 24 hours.