Time-tables Restricted.

Passenger train time-tables at Home are invariably cut down during the present season, but the cuts this year have naturally taken a somewhat severer form. The Railway Executive Committee have re-shuffled the time-tables to meet wartime conditions, and both main-line and suburban services have been considerably curtailed. Most of the London tube services have been retained, particularly those operating during the morning and evening rush hours, economy being effected through the closing of some of the less important stations. Special services, such as restaurant car facilities and sleeping cars, have also been curtailed, but everywhere there is a sufficiency of comfortable rail transport to meet all needs, and there is no restriction on the movement of passengers as between one part of the country and another. Railway-operated steamships, which mostly worked to and from the continent, have been withdrawn, and the vessels put to more useful tasks. Railway hotels also have in some instances been acquired for various national uses.