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LINER TRAINS TO START IN AUTUMN?

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7th May 1965

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From Our Industrial Correspondent COLLOWING the go-ahead received

from the Minister of Transport, the British Railways Board hopes to start its first liner-train service between Maiden Lane in London and Gushetfauls, Glasgow, in the autumn and to. have the four other services in the pilot scheme in operation by the end of the year. These are from London to Manchester, London In Liverpool, Manchester to Glasgow, and Liverpool to Glasgow.

Of the £6m. which the Board has now been authorized to spend on the linertrain scheme, more than dm. has already been allocated for liner terminals, 100 wagons (60 of which are already built), 300 containers with a capacity ranging from 530 to 1,488 Cu. ft. and nine cranes, capable of loading containers in two minutes. A start has also been made on three of the new terminals at a cost of £321.000. Of this, £81,000 is being spent at Maiden Lane, £97,000 at Longsight, Manchester, and £143,000 at Gushetfauls.

Plans are well advanced to expand services rapidly once the result of the pilot scheme can be assessed. They provide for a network of routes covering the industrial areas of this country and extending beyond into the Continent, To provide for this all the equipment can be adapted to Continental loading gauges.

For the first service to Glasgow the railways plan to operate at an average speed of 50 m.p.h. travelling overnight. The continuously coupled train, 982 ft. lone, will consist of 15 aluminium and bluewagons each 62 ft. 6 in. long, and wiII be able to turn round at the termMa Is within two hours if everything goes According to plan.

So far union reaction to the overruling or its objection to the admission of pii,ane hauliers to the liner-train ten

mina's has been comparatively mild. The executive of the National Union of Railwaymen was inee:ing when the announcement was made in the Commons. The position wt..; bsnetiy considered, but the general secretary. Mr. Sidney Greene, confined hinnelf to saying that the NUR's posi;ion was covered by their previous decasion.

This 111CdTIS that the objections remain and that the union will proceed to hold special meetings of its 26 district councils. each attended by a union officer, to exrilain their attitude. Whether this will be followed b\ instructions not to handle liner trains, or even by a strike, remains to be seen. 1 here is still plenty of time to resolve t lie problem.