benb

I stumbled on this from the June 1979 "Railway Magazine" FOLLOWING its decision in 1977 to continue to carry unaccompanied livestock by its Rail Express Parcels Service. after representations from the Central Transport Consultative Committee. British Railways has issued a list of 478 stations——about half the previous number at which such traffic will now be handled. During discussions with major users of the service and the CTCC. changes in BR's conditions of carriage were agreed. particularly to provide closer controls over the standards of packaging and labelling of animals. Seems pretty late to me that in 1979 there were nearly 500 stations equipped to carry livestock! Ben