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PASSENGERS ON BRITISH RAILWAYS / — TRAINS BEING STRAINED TO CAPACITY. GOODS GETTING PREFERENCE.. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, December 23. Christmas 1941 finds the JBritish railways, which for years, by intense propaganda, have urged people to travel in trains, now issuing equally intense propaganda imploring them not to travel, and pointing out that goods today take precedence over passengers. The average frequency of main line services has been reduced 25 per cent. The number of passengers has increased substantially, especially in long distance trains. As a result, during the last few weeks passengers on every main train have been literally packed like sardines. Petrol rationing, which has greatly reduced the number of private motor-cars, coupled with the redistribution of the population, the large expansion of the fighting forces, the arrival of further forces from overseas and the rapidly-increasing number of war workers —all these are straining the trains to capacity.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1941, Page 4
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155NOT WANTED Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1941, Page 4
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