N.0 R. Want State Road Replacements for Rail Closures From Our Industrial Correspondent A POWERFUL campaign against the
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British Transport Commission's coming proposals for cutting down the railways system was launched by the 330,000-strong National Union of Railwaymen this week. And one of the demands of the railwaymen's leaders is that private enterprise should be banned from providing alternative road services. Where railway closures are inevitable. alternative transport should be provided by the nationalized services, they insist.
The railwaymen fear that if Dr. Beeching's plan to make the railways pay is carried out in full about a third of the system would disappear and 150,000 railwaymen would lose their jobs.
Already 3,600 route miles of railway, amounting to 19 per cent, of the total had been closed. Yet the savings were described as " infinitesimal " compared with the £136m. loss which the B.T.C. are expected to announce today (Friday).