THE RAILWAYS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 January 1931, Page 2

THE RAILWAYS

(To the Editor) Sir, —lb makes me wonder who is in charge of the affairs of this country. Is it some office boy or are they run from Moscow? Last Wednesday morning a man went to a country station and asked the guard if lie would take a truck of peas by the afternoon train and he said, “No.” “If I load them why won’t you take them?” the man asked. “Because it. is against the rules to shunt there,” was the reply. So the peas went to town by lorry that afternoon. I happened to see the train arrive at the station that day. The train stayed 10 or 15 minutes there. They had a few trucks, one carriage, two guards and about three passengers in the van. There is no need to wonder why the railways are not paying. It is quite time the British people of this country put a stop to such foolish management, or it won’t be many years and we won’t be under the British flag. A few months ago a Tadmor man bought some dement in town and had it taken to the station thinking it would arrive by the same train. He went to the station the next day, the second and a third day before it arrived. It is quite time We Britishers realised what kind of people we have with us and the sooner we put a Government in. power that will cut out about 90 per cent, of red tape and labour laws, then this country would be the happy land it was forty years ago. There seem to be interested parties in opposition to our railways. —I am, etc., OVERTAXED. January 19th.