{Railways into Busways}[3rd March 1976]

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

1976.03.03

The Reading University railways-into-busways study, although clearly futile as a practical exercise (see, for example, Modern Railways, Vol XXXIII No330: March 1976), should be taken seriously by B[ritish] R[ail] and the Government in one respect — even if only in one respect. For it does what both B.R. and the D[epartment] o[f the] Environment] appear at the moment to be either unable or unwilling to do: it looks at the future of transport in this country (if only by implication) in order to ask: is the present technological and operational structure of the Railways the most appropriate until the turn of the century, and after?

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