RAILWAY SAFETY
SIR,—May I assure Mr. Henry Kerby, MP, whose article Progress in Safety' appeared in your issue of January 31, that there, is no lad( of urgency in the constant search for still, higher standards of safety on British Railways—already among the highest in the world. In advocating the installation of automatic train control throughout British Railways Mr. Kerby does not mention the already announced intention of the British Transport Commission to provide ATC On all the main' traffic routes of the country. The Commission's piOgramme for this work was pub= lashed in the GoVernment White Paper, 'Proposals for the Railways,' Command 9880, October, 1956. Since then the Commission have made known their inten- tion to accelerate this programme, and contracts have been placed for initial supplies of the mass of equip- ment which will be required.
The advantageS of the 'Great Western' system of ATC to which Mr. Kerby refers were not overlooked when, in connection with the Commission's pro- gramme, it was decided to evolve a standard system fcir British Railways; Nor were those of the system introduced by the • LMS Company:, The system adopted, after long and exhaustive tests, and approved by the Minister Of, Transport and Civil Aviation, does, in fact, incorporate the best features of both.— Yours faithfully, H. BREBNER Public Relations Adviser British Transport Conimission, 222 Marylebone Road, NW 1
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