These rail subsidie really cost us
7th November 1981, Page 17
7th November 1981
Page 17

Page 17, 7th November 1981
— These rail subsidie really cost us
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A SURVEY by the Freight Transport Association sugge that British Rail will lose a grE deal of traffic, particularly limestone, coal, china clay an sand, if it ceases to build mul. purpose open-top wagons capable of loading and discharging minerals in the same way as the current 164( trucks. The traffic will go by n instead.
This is a touch ironical aftel successive governments hay handed out millions of pounc of your money and mine to industrial companies to persuade them to adapt their premises to rail transport.