This is the age of the drain
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THE Consumers' Association is determined to out-shout British Railways Board, the railway unions and the Government in its defence of rail commuters in London and the south-east.
Presenting a survey of conditions on the railway in that region, which was based on the experience of about 4,000 passengers, Peter Goldman, the association's director, commented that this had to be the age of the train and "not of a troika drawn by three hesitant horses pulling at three different speeds while passengers get more fed-up and angry".
Many passengers from Gravesend in Southern Region and Shenfield in Eastern Region, who won first and second places in the dirty-train stakes, believe that this is the age of the drain. Those who disagree say that sewers are cleaner.
But if Sid Weighell succeed stopping the wheels in furtherance of the railwaymen pay claim, the shortcomings o rail commuter services in the south-east of England will become of purely academic interest. So will many of his members' jobs.