With smalls by freight and parcels by coaching trains, said Mr. Osborn, the B.T.C. is not yet clear what local figures would be useful to management, as these services are on an all-line basis with uniform scales of charges.

What started as a great effort ended up petering out to nothing.

Some offenders were called to judgment where offences were technical and unaccompanied by any intention to wrongdo, whereas hardened offenders were sometimes let off with less than their deserts.

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