Railways Will Want £1,000 m.
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N/HILST an eight-wheeler that did an VY honest week's work was compelled o pay over £1,000 a year in taxation, omething like £1,000 million was going o disappear into thin air during the next even years in the process of implementng the Beeching Report, said Mr. N. T. )'Reilly, chairman at the Road Haulage association's Northern Area dinner.
The Report contained sound commonense. However, nothing much would lappen this year so that something like , further £150m. would be lost and lelicits would continue until the ialancing point came in 1970.
Mr. J. T. Turner. an R.H.A. national ice-chairman, said it was the last )ccasion that he would be appearing in mblic as holder of that office. Although oad casualties generally were down in armary, 1963, as compared with the ame month a year earlier there had been : big increase in the number of deaths of ransport drivers and mates. This was in trect a testimony to the efforts the men tad made to keep things moving. Withlut them the severe weather would have educed the country to siege conditions.