Liner Trains It is bad news that the NUR have
rejected, even for a trial period, the introduction of liner freight trains. Clearly their opposition centres on the proposal of the British Railways Board that private road hauliers should be able to use the liner-train terminals. No doubt the evidence of growing redundancy and short-time working has cast its shadow. Yet the Government cannot turn back now. With or without the consent of the railway unions it is committed to pushing forward with this eminently sensible idea. Mr. Callaghan, in the final censure motion, was crow- ing over the Government's courage in dealing with the introduction of these trains. I hope that (once more) the Government will not prove tO have been brave in advance, weak when the moment comes. Liner trains and the docks are the test cases.
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