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n Is the National Freight Organization to be another British
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Transport Commission, as the TUC requires? The picture seems somewhat confused.
A The Minister of Transport said in the
Commons debate on the Transport White Paper that she rejected the idea of recreating a British Transport Commission because she believed that different forms of integration were required for passenger services and freight services.
She said the National Freight Organization would be a separate, publicly owned corporation, directly responsible to the Minister of Transport.
It would take over all the road haulage assets of the Transport Holding Company, British Railways' cartage fleet and such
Freightliner assets depots, equipment, containers and so on—as it needed to enable it to provide a wide range of freight services. It would thus be able to offer a door-to-door service of great flexibility—a combination of road and rail or, as appropriate, by road throughout. With a financial stake in the success of the Freightliners, the NFO would work closely with the British Railways Board, aided by a Freight Integration Council.
Mrs. Castle said that -with my encouragement" the NFO would pursue an expansionist policy, actively promoting voluntary acquisitions, as the THC had done, though the road services it acquired would be fully integrated with the NFO.
The Minister made it clear that she did not intend to give the NFO a freight monopoly, but rather an equal chance. One of its main purposes would be to get more freight off the road and on to rail.