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IS NOT a shortage of money at is preventing railway tracks Dm being maintained to the andard demanded by highmed trains and is causing more Jeed limits to be imposed. During the railway drivers' rike I saw a six-man gang at Prork" on a main line. One was antly shovelling shingle while le other five watched. When I turned an hour later the same an was still shovelling the Imo shingle and the other five ere still watching. Bone leness at your expense and me is, I suggest, an important lason why railway tracks are better maintained.
But high wages are not being )id to surplus staff on new ains introduced in Fance. They we neither drivers nor guards. Britain, where some of the bour-saving equipment for the French trains was made, the railways are more likely to have drivers and guards but no passengers.
Then perhaps Gwilym Roberts, MP for Cannock, will cease to bleat about class divisions on the railways and relics of the British Raj. He will be able to concentrate on campaigning for one-class accommodation in football grounds and one-price seats in cinemas. Why, after all, should people in a democratic society be allowed to spend their own money to their own advantage?