RUSH ON RAILWAYS BRINGS CONGESTION IN LONDON
Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 29. The ban on basic petrol is being partly blamed for London's main railwajr stations having their biggest after- - Christmas rush since the war. •Though the four railway companies r,an 241 extra traills, the majority were erammed*. When the earriages1 were fuli ^ mahy p'feople packed irito the guards' vans, determine^l to get home after the Christmas holidays. The queiles ror tfaills, it is stated, were much larger by thousands of car owners who liad to leave their cars lochee! iip at hoi«e-i>e-eause they had no petrol. Britain 's. motor trade is now speciiTriting whdther the Ministry of FueJ will rbvivfe the basic petrol rhtion dtiri'hg next year's main holiday months — ffdih June to September. Motoring correspondents say that the vastly-ihcreased riumber of AllowAnces for Supbldr&bhtary petrol wliich have Bfeeri inade recbntly will gr'eatiy reduce thb s&vihgs in petrbl conSumptiori ahd dollars. The abolition of.tlie fatiori, it is cbhimented, hris proved how widely used are cars 'and motbr cyeles for taking work people to and from factories.
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 December 1947, Page 5
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