BRITISH RAILWAYS
AN IMPROVED POSITION MARKED TRAFFIC INCREASE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, August 24. (Received August 25, at 11 a.m.) The recent steady rise in home rail stocks reflects the satisfactory traffic figures which the companies have been showing. Although the more vigorous policy by the companies is perhaps mainly responsible for the increase in the passenger traffic, more general interest attaches to the steady improvement in the amount of merchandise carried by the railways, despite the severe competition of road transport. This section of the traffic figures is regarded as a reliable trade barometer, since the increased transport of raw materials shows that the manufacturers, particularly in the heavy industries, are increasingly active. The figures provide corroborative evidence of the improving conditions reported from many other sources.
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Evening Star, Issue 21499, 25 August 1933, Page 8
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131BRITISH RAILWAYS Evening Star, Issue 21499, 25 August 1933, Page 8
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