Freightliner traffic
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• British Railways carried 480,000 Freightliner containers last year. compared with 108.500 in 1967. Freightliners Ltd paid BR a haulage charge of £5.8m in 1970. periods from Mondays to Fridays and the abolition of children's return tickets. The appellants argued that the Traffic Commissioners had been unduly influenced in their decision by evidence purporting to show that children were being carried at a loss: by rather superficial estimates of prospective passenger resistance and by implausible hopes of achieving a shift of school traffic off the peak. On the other hand the Commissioners had recognized the hardship which the increases would cause but had offset against this not only the powers of the Education Authority to provide free transport for school children without imposing the minimum distance now in force, but also the possible hardship to adults if a greater proportion of the increased revenue were to be found from their fares.
In his decision the Secretary said that he considered the withdrawal of the children's and scholars' concessions to be rather abrupt and might with advantage have been implemented over a period. Taking every aspect into account, however, he felt that the appellants had not demonstrated that the degree of hardship inflicted had been so great as to be unacceptable to the ratepayers or the fare-paying public and he considered that the fares proposed by the company had not been shown, in the circumstances, to be unreasonable.