RATES TRIBUNAL APPROVES AGREED CHARGES.
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On March 23 the Railway Rates Tribunal gave judgment approving a number of charges agreed between the amalgamated railway companies, the Cheshire Lines Committee and various traders. Mr. W. Bruce Thomas, K.C., said that the applications were the first to come before the Tribunal under the Road and Rail Traffic Act. There were 36 of them, and each was for the approval of an agreed charge in the form of a flat rate for the carriage of goods or passenger traffic from one or more forwarding points to specified stations, or to all stations within a specified area. The agreements between the railway companies and the traders provided, inter alia, that -the trader should hand to the railway company the whole of the traffic to which the agreed charge was applicable.