CARRYING CARS BY RAIL

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23495, 25 November 1941, Page 6

CARRYING CARS BY RAIL

* Concession Announced (P A.) WELLINGTON, November 24. The Minister for Railways (the Hon. R. Semple) announced to-day that as a measure to compensate motorists in some degree for the present-day limitations on car travel it had been decided, subject to certain lenienr conditions, to grant free return transport of motorcars which are conveyed by rail at ordinary freight rates on the outward journey. The new regulation will operate from Monday, December “To obtain the concession it is necessary for two adults, or the equivalent in passenger fares, to hold rail tickets for the same journeys as made by the car. The period within which the concession applies has been fixed at three months from the commencement of the outward journey,” said the Minister. “This will amply cover the required travelling time of the great majority of motorists. It will not be obligatory to return a car from the identical station to which it was originally railed; but where rerailing takes place at another station, whose distance to the starting point exceeds that of the outward journey, an appropriate charge for the extra mileage will be made. . . “Formalities have been reduced to a minimum,” added Mr Semple. Written application for the concession would need to be made beforehand at the station from which the car was to be forwarded, and completion of a brief certificate embodying details of the car would be required.