CLOSED TO PASSENGERS.
BRITISH RAILWAY STATIONS. Between 360 and 380 stations have been closed to passenger traffic in the last eight years by the four principal railway companies in Britain, chiefly owing to road competition. Most of these stations, however, have been kept open for parcels and goods traffic. An official recently explained that where passenger traffic had proved unprofitable arrangements were made, wherever possible, for passengers to be carried by road. " We have had," he said, "to cut our losses by closing those stations to passengers where it is obvious that competition between rail and road had become cut-throat." Jt, was added that in most areas the railway companies had reached working agreements with road transport concerns, which were able to undertake the carrying of former railway passengers and thus avoid inconvenience.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20990, 29 September 1931, Page 9
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133CLOSED TO PASSENGERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20990, 29 September 1931, Page 9
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