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Railways Fare: Transportation.—railways fare and Roads — Railway services in Scotland are the responsibility of the Scottish Region of the publicly owned British railways fare. Control is coordinated under the managements of three divisions with headquarters at Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Inverness. The railways fare in Scotland, as in England, operate at a loss, but efforts have been made to rectify this, partly by closing uneconomic branch lines md partly by modernization.There's wonderful exhilaration in this, as I have found by trying it. These bargain-tickets-for-foreigners may be had from your travel agent or from the British railways fare offices in America and Canada. The New York office is at 9 Rockefeller Plaza. Bargains available to anyone in England, and purchasable there, include the big reduction on 30-day round-trip tickets (1% times the oneway fare) and many special tours. Typical of these tours is one that is widely advertised as "A Shakespeare Country day tour from London—including luncheon—only $5.64."
Few other railway systems, with the exception of the comparatively small systems of Holland and Switzerland and, occasionally, the heavily utilized Indian railways fare, ever show a profit. The nationalized systems of Britain and France in the 1960's operated at deficits of up to $500 million a year. The average operating ratio of European railways fare is about 120%—for every dollar taken in, $1.20 is paid out. |
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