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No Road-rail Rates Scheme Until 1954?

13th April 1951, Page 27
13th April 1951
Page 27
Page 27, 13th April 1951 — No Road-rail Rates Scheme Until 1954?
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

EVEN if a freight scheme be lodged Lain August next, it is unlikely that a complete road and rail charges scheme will be in operation before 1954 at the earliest," said the Transport Tribunal in a memorandum on the proposal to increase railway freight charges, parcels rates and dock and canal charges by 10 per cent. as from next Monday. The Tribunal thought that the assumption that a road and rail chafges scheme could be brought into operation by the end of 1952 was optimistic.

The British Transport Commission had told the Tribunal that an increase in the net revenue of British Road