Co-ordinating Rail and Road Services.

The topic of railway and road co-ordination is now becoming somewhat hackneyed, but it is an all-important subject at the present juncture, and any noteworthy advances in this direction are of the first moment. During recent times marked progress has been effected by the European railways in rail-road coordination, and, at Home, the railways are by degrees acquiring important interests in the leading road carrying organisations.

In Scotland, the L. and N.E. and L.M. and S. Railways have jointly come to an agreement with a big road transport house known as the Scottish Motor Traction Company, whereby the railways undertake not to compete in road transport with that concern, the arrangement being that the two railways and the road transport company will co-operate in the provision of road and rail services throughout page 21 Scotland. Another noteworthy move is the purchase by the L.M. and S. Railway of the Crosville Motor Company, which operates extensively in North Wales. The purchase price is said to be something like £390,000, and the acquisition of this big undertaking should prove extremely beneficial to the L.M. and S. Railway.