When the four great trunk railway lines of this country
act in co-operation some momentous achievement may seem to be portended. But it is apparently not always so. They have, it seems, just united all their several and formidable efforts in Order to ban a time-table: It hap- pens to be a singularly useful, complete and well-arranged time-table (known as the " A to Z"'), but it commits the unpardonable offence of showing you how to get from place to place by air or coach as well as by train, and tel- ling you how much it will cost you. Consequently its sale, according to the publishers' announcement, has been prohibited on the bookstalls of the four great railway companies. If this is true it strikes one as a very petty piece of work. But can a railway control the bookstalls Which hold contracts from it to this extent Could Sir Josiah Stamp, for example, prohibit the sale of The Times at Euston if he chose ?
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