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Rail commuters go over the wall

9th April 1983, Page 34
9th April 1983
Page 34
Page 34, 9th April 1983 — Rail commuters go over the wall
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BY DEFECTING to coaches, particularly in north Kent, London rail commuters have destroyed the illusion that they are a captive market. British Rail has cause to be worried. On long-distance journeys, too, coach operators are mopping up with a first-class service at about half rail fares and at almost the same speed.

Long-distance coaches will have an even more important part to play if, to preserve employment, railway workshops are obliged to turn out wagons that nobody wants. With the line from Newcastle to London blocked by an ever-growing accumulation of trucks, which Ray Buckton will insist must be shunted backwards and forwards day and night by surplus locomotive drivers, coach operators will have a field day.