FREE ONE WAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1941, Page 9

FREE ONE WAY

RAILAGE OF CARS

ASSISTANCE TO MOTORISTS

HOLIDAY PERIOD

To compensate motorists in some degree for present-day limitations on car travel, it has been decided, subject to certain conditions, to grant free return transport of motor-cars which are conveyed by rail at ordinary freight rates on the outward journey. The new re- ' gulations will operate from Monday. The Minister of Railways (Mr. Semple) stated today that to obtain the concession it was necessary for two adults (or the equivalent in passenger fares) to hold rail tickets for the same journey as made by the car. The period within which the concession applied had been fixed at three months, dating from the commencement of the outward journey: this would amply cover the required travelling time of the great majority of motorists, whether using their cars for business or pleasure. It would not be obligatory to return a car from the identical station to which it had been originally railed, but where rerailing took place at another station whose distance to the starting point exceeded that of the outward journey, the appropriate charge for the extra mileage would be made. Formalities had been reduced to a minimum, the Minister said. Written applications 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,' etc., would also be required. Other than attention to these minor matj ters, however, the transaction would be free fronvcomplications.