Urging People Not To Use Railways

Northern Advocate, 24 December 1941, Page 2

Urging People Not To Use Railways

(Rec. 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 23. Christmas, 1941, finds the British railways, which for years by intense propoganda have urged people to travel by train, now with equally intense propoganda imploring them not to travel and pointing out that goods today take precedence over passengers. The average frequency of main line services has been reduced 25 per cent, while the number of passengers has increased substantially, especially on long-distance trains. Therefore during the last few weeks passengers on every main line train have literally been packed like sardines. Petrol rationing, which has greatly reduced the number of private motors, coupled with the redistribution of the poulation, the large expansion of the fighting forces, the arrival of further forces from overeas and the rapidly increasing number of war workers, arc straining train accommodation to capacity.