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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 8 (December 1, 1933)

Rail-Road Co-ordination in Britain

Rail-Road Co-ordination in Britain.

Rail-road co-ordination continues a feature in Britain. The action of the railways in acquiring financial interests in the leading omnibus concerns has proved most successful, and it is enabling many valuable economies to be effected, especially through the closing of branch lines and intermediate stations. To realise the situation in this respect, it may be stated that in the north of England, one railway alone—the L.M. and S.—has closed nearly twenty branch lines with more than fifty stations, railway-operated road transport taking the place of the rail services formerly provided.

Most of the Home railway time-table books now include as a special feature maps showing rail and road interchange stations. These are points where the road services have been extended from the centre of the town to the railway station, the running of the buses being page 43 timed so as to fall in with train arrivals and departures. Much new business has been drawn to rail by sane co-ordination with the road carriers. By linking up outlying centres with the railway, many country-folk are now led to patronise long-distance rail excursions which at one time were utilised almost exclusively by the city dweller. In this, and other ways, road transport is acting as a feeder to the “Iron Way,” instead of a competitor.