RESTRICTION OF RAILWAY PASSENGER SERVICES AT CHRISTMAS. Memorandum by the Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport.

passenger trains run by any Company on all its routes shall not exceed the number on the corresponding ordinary day in December 1942; but that the limitation of the number on each route shall be abandoned, subject to no increase in the total long-distance mileage. They point out that on some routes they are able during the holiday period to take off some of their normal time-table trains, and thus the total number of trains which they run on all routes on any given day during a holiday period is, under the present direction, substantially less than the number actually run on all routes on the corresponding day a year ago.