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"Free Terminals" Essential to Road-Rail Plans
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FAR too many people had completely missed the full implications of the Beeching Report, said Mr. H. C. Johnson, chairman of the London Midland Railway Board, when he addressed the annual luncheon of the East Midland division of the T.R.T.A. at Nottingham yesterday. Far too much emphasis had been given to the negative side dealing with closures. he said, and far too little attention paid to the positive side dealing with future developments. As a good example of the latter he acknowledged the valuable help given by members of the T.R.T.A. in supplying information for the traffic studies on which the reshaping plan was based.
The railways proposed to concentrate on the wholesale rather than the retail side of transport—something they were best suited' for —and aimed to provide a trunk haulage system whose service and price Could be made attractive to trade and industry. But it was important that the customer should be free to move traffic into and out of railway terminals: Dr. Beeching had stated his case for free terminals and this must be upheld if the railways were to do business freely with their customers. said Mr. Johnson.
He hoped their container designs would suit road transport so that thc railways could be in partnership with road. Market consultants had been engaged to
continue research into equipment and customer requirements—matters in which the T.R.T.A. would be asked to help— but the information provided would be used only for the purpose of ascertaining what the railways had to do to achieve a closer partnership with the Association. The time had come when a rationalized and sensible transport system should be produced together, asserted Mr. Johnson.