{Railways into Busways [continued]}[3rd March 1976]

[Redbook2:83A-B][19760303:0000a]{Railways into Busways [continued]}[3rd March 1976]

1976.03.03

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The Railway Management have stated publicly over the last few years that there is now no commercial 'break-even' point for the railways: that continued attempts to whittle the system down to a financially self-supporting network will have no logical end until there are no railways left. If this is correct, continued discussion in terms of 'commercially viable services' (such as Inter City) must be virtually meaningless; and the public is entitled to question the whole basis of assumptions on which the railway system is founded. Since it appears equally as impossible in practice to achieve anything by organisational reform as by surgery, only the question of the technology of the Railways remains. But it is scarcely a satisfactory answer, to the problem of overall commercial unviability of trains, to continue with highly expensive efforts to build more convenient trains.

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