TIE-UP OF SHIPS MAKES COAL SITUATION SERIOUS
Received Thursday, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 5. The Ministry of Fucl states that a serious situation has arisen regarding the supply of coal throughout Britain tnrough interruptions in the railways and coastal shipping as a result of the exceptional cold and gales. Fifty-seven ships loaded with coal were unable to leave their ports, and thirty which had dischargv^ their cargoes were unable to return to their loading ports. Loading appliances in the south of Wales were frozen up. Railway workings in the Midlands have been seriously interfered with, while collicry sidings in Durham and Ncrthumberlanc1 are blocked and the colleries are unable to work. * u i position is particularly bad in London, where power stations normally draw the bulk of their supplies by sea.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 February 1947, Page 5
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