Railways Will Not Join Rates Conference
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THE L.M.S. and L.N.E. Railway companies have not agreed to a meeting with Yorkshire road-transport representatives to discuss the coordination of road and rail rates for goods. This is intimated-in letters received by a rates-stabilization committee of A.R.O. Yorkshire Area, from which the suggestion for a road-rail conference on rates emanated.
The letters express the view that, as the question of transport rates is now being dealt with by the Transport Advisory council, the moment is not opportune for a road-rail conference as suggested, and that, in any case, the rates problem is a national one and not a sectional one.
Commenting to a correspondent upon the railway companies' replies, Mr. F. G. Bibbings, A.R.O. Yorkshire Area secretary, said : " In view of these replies, I hope that the railway companies' legal representatives will no longer buffet road operators about in the traffic courts, because they are not charging rates which the railway companies think they ought to charge. It is quite obvious that the local operator can do nothing along the lines of accommodation with the railway corn• panics on rates.'