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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 4 (August 1, 1927)

Co-Ordinating Road and Rail

Co-Ordinating Road and Rail.

Road transport is not necessarily always an obstacle to railway development. Properly co-ordinated, there are many ways in which road transport may prove of positive benefit to the rail carrier. On the Underground Railways of London, for instance, an especially happy idea has been conceived in this connection. At the outer suburbann termini of the Underground lines, special garages are being erected for the convenience of patrons, and in order to attract business to rail.

At the Morden terminus of the City and South London Railway a garage has been provided covering an area of 7,600 square feet, and affording accommodation for more than 200 motor cars, with private lock-ups. Ordinary passengers are charged 1s. 6d. for the service, while season ticket holders are charged one shilling a day or five shillings a week for the use of the garage. Repair and cleaning facilities are available, and the arrangement is resulting in large numbers of suburban residents driving to the railway terminal and there garaging their cars and continuing the journey into the city by train, in preference to making the throughout run by road with all the delays this course involves in passing through the congested thoroughfares.

Quai D'sOrsay Terminal, Orleans Railway, Paris. The beautiful water-front of this magnificent Seine-side terminal is unique, even in a cosmopolitan capital possessing so many noble railway stations as Paris.

Quai D'sOrsay Terminal, Orleans Railway, Paris.
The beautiful water-front of this magnificent Seine-side terminal is unique, even in a cosmopolitan capital possessing so many noble railway stations as Paris.