RAILWAY REORGANISATION

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1930, Page 7

RAILWAY REORGANISATION

DRASTIC SCHEME POSSIBLE CANADIAN EXPERT IN BRITAIN SIGNIFICANT CONFERENCE DICTATORSHIP SUGGESTED -ri i j. —__ By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 26. Drastic reorganisation of the British railways is mentioned as a possible outcome of a meeting of the general managers of the Southern and the London and North-Eastern Railways with the president of the Canadian National railways. Government ownership and the appointment of a railway dictator may be involved in the complete reorganisation that the Daily Express understands is probable. Such a development would mean the elimination of overlapping services.

The London and North-Eastern Railway works on 6409 miles of track. The company was incorporated under its present title in 1921 and the general manager is Sir R. L. Wedgwood. The head office is at Maryle'bone station, but the largest station is at Edinburgh. Sir H. A. Walker is general manager of the Southern Company, which also was incorporated in 1921. The mileage of line controlled from its station, Waterloo, is over 2000. The companies are the second and fourth biggest respectively operating railways in Britain;