TRAFFIC JAMS IN ENGLAND
(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, August 30. England’s first sunny weekend for 13 weeks—and with summer almost over—led to unprecedented traffic jams and crowding on public transport. London newspapers reported today The “News Chronicle" said that people waiting to book rail tickets home to London from the south coast resort of Brighton formed a queue two miles long. Cars on the LondonBrighton road crawled in three mile “jams.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27442, 31 August 1954, Page 11
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