FUTURE PASSENGER TRANSPORT

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 March 1934, Page 14

FUTURE PASSENGER TRANSPORT

f 4 'p VENTU ALLY, throughout rural' England, the .slowest passenger trains will be trains stopping at. intervals of some 20 miles, making a through speed of nearer 50 than 40 miles an hour. [Such*trains would move at regular intervals of an hour, or even less,” said Mr P. C. Young, C.8.E., joint managing director, Sentinel Wagon Works, in an address to the Business Research and Management Association, reported in “Modern Transport.” “Where the density of traflie is not sufficient to "justify .such a service, passenger train services will be abandoned altogether. Moving faster than these trains on main lines there will be .cypresses, making fewer stops and still greater through speeds. But everywhere, moving slower than these trains, will be a completely eo-ordinated bus service. 'Covering the whole country with a network of smaller mesh. “These' buses will move at the same

Co-ordinated Bus and Rail Services

time, intervals as the trains, or in some eases at half the time intervals. The services will be fully co-ordinated. The railway stations left open will become" important transfer points 1 between road and rail. Trains and buseis will be timed so that trains overtake the buses at these transfer points. “Facilities for transfer between road and rail will be as greatly improved for passengers as they will' be for goods. Electrification of terminal stations in Dondon will be used, among other things, to facilitate and cheapen for the passenger this business of transfer. These Dondon terminal stations are arranged round a ring which, contains Dondon’s most congested areas. It seems conceivable that the entry of longer distance buses within that ring will eventually be prohibited, and that these terminal stations will be used as transfer points to and from long-dis-tance buses, as well as trains.”