Cheaper Railway Fares The railway companies should regain a good
deal of passenger traffic by their liberal offer of return tickets at a penny a mile during the summer for journeys over ten miles. This offer will reduce the fare to Edinburgh or Glasgow, for example, from 15 to about RS, the pre-War rate. Moreover, the L.M.S. and L.N.E.R. announce cheap fares on some of the night expresses to Manchester, Newcastle and other northern cities. As last year's statistics showed a substantial increase in the number of passengers with cheap tickets, as compared with a heavy fall in the number of those who paid standard fares, the companies have reason to expect that their trains will be better filled if travelling is cheapened. Their competitors on the roads have no cause for com- plaint, since they set the example in cutting fares, which the railways are now following. If trains were as cheap as motor-coaches, the railways would have had no great reason to complain of their new rivals.
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