GREAT TRAVEL CHARGES.
WHOLESALE CUTTING DOAVN OF TRAINS.
Further official details of the scheme to stop unnecessary railway travelling at Home have been issued. The Board-of Trade have made orders under the Defence of the Realm Act authorising the railway companies on and after, .January 1, To increase passenger fares bv one half. To refuse to carry of luggage per passenger. The wholesale cutting down on the London, Brighton, and South Coast railway will have these results : Thirteen stations are to be closed. One- hundred and two main-line trains cancelled, One hundred rand twenty-eight- suburban- trains cancelled.
The South-Eastern already announces the closing down of three branch lines, and the .London and North and North Western the closing of over 40 local stations. • On the Caledonian railway about 50 stations are to be closed (10 of which are in Glasgow), and about 1200 trains will be taken off tlie Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. The North-British will close 59 stations. On the Great Western, the Cornish Riviera express, which has run for 12 years and done the longest nonstop run (to plymouth, 226 miles), in the world, is to be withdrawn ; also the noon South Devon express.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4471, 12 February 1917, Page 6
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196GREAT TRAVEL CHARGES. Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4471, 12 February 1917, Page 6
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