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Railways plan to capture freight
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BRITISH RAIL plans to increase the amount of freight carried by around 20 per cent to 211m tons a year over the next two years and cut out all support for the freight services by 1978, according to its annual report out this week.
Although the amount of freight carried was down by one per cent last year, receipts were up by 14 per cent to £244.8m, says the report.
Industry continued to buy its own wagons and last year 500 new air-braked wagons were added to private fleets—making a total of 18,700 privately owned rail wagons.
British Rail has found a possible cut in the rail wagon fleet of 20,000 trucks using the new computerised wagon monitoring system. And the system saved E3m a year in maintenance costs.
Investment was also being made in the new high-speed wagons designed to carry consignments of less than a trainload.
British Rail did not necessarily accept the Green Paper conclusion on freight that road was the best means of transport for freight.
"The Board will continue to compete for every ton capable of being moved profitably on the principal lines of the rail network and have confidence in the achievement of their firm plans to increase the tonnage carried by 15 to 20 per cent over the next two to three years," says the report.