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2nd September 1966
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wo Lancashire/Glasgow links starting

IN Monday next British Railways will start a new Freightliner service linking lasgow (Gushetfaulds) and Liverpool iarston). The following week a further rvice between Glasgow and Manchester ongsight) will commence.

With the addition of these new services e total number of Freightliner services will six. The existing four services, with dates commencement are: London (York Way)/ lasgow, night service November, 1965; ty service July, 1966; London/Manchester, :bruary 1966; London/Liverpool, June )66.

Examples of departure times, as from :ptember 5, from London (York Way) are: anchester 19.25, Glasgow 20.05 and Lverpool 01.35. With the exception of the iditional daytime service London/Glasgow,

existing Freightliner services operate ,e nights a week in both directions. Total ier-train mileage is now approaching )0,000 and the 10,000th container was mveyed on August 17.

In October another Freightliner service 11 operate on the 523-mile run between andon and Aberdeen. It is to be timed so to be convenient for the Smithfield Meat arket.

A further Freightliner development took place on August 4. Though not as yet coming within the category of a regular public service, it could have wider implications. On that date Gallaher Ltd., tobacco manufacturers, shipped a Freightliner container loaded with 4-3-m. cigarettes and 6 tons of pipe tobaccos from Ballymena, Northern Ireland, via Lame and Stranraer and then on to Glasgow where it joined the liner train for London at the Gushetfaulds terminal. It was then delivered to Gallaher's southern distribution centre at Northolt.

This is the first occasion a Freightliner container has travelled by sea and British Railways claim that goods from Northern Ireland can now be delivered to the London area in 18 hours.

Tay Bridge toll vouchers for lorries TRANSPORT operators who use the new Tay Road Bridge regularly will soon be able to buy blocks of 10s. toll vouchers for their drivers. They will be obtainable from the board on prepayment. Mr. Gordon S. Watson, clerk to the Tay Road Bridge joint board, said he had received many applications for such a facility, mainly because many lorries made an early start and office staffs had to begin unduly early to issue toll money to drivers.


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