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B.R. GIVING AWAY TRAFFIC

9th November 1951, Page 33
9th November 1951
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

IT seemed extraordinary that the rail. I ways should ask for goods to be sent by other services at a time when they were not paying their way, said Mr. C. W. Banks at a meeting of Leeds Chamber of Commerce, last week.

Mr. C. H. Crabtree declared that traders were now having to conduct their businesses at •the convenience of transport facilities—a wholly impossible position. Mr. T. R. Heaton, district goods superintendent, British Railways, Leeds, outlined the railways' difficulties which, he said were caused by labour shortages. Hundreds of trains throughout the country had had to be cancelled because there was not the labour to man them.