HC Deb 26 February 1975 vol 887 c133W
48. Mr. Ronald Atkins

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what tonnage was carried by rail-borne container traffic in 1973 and 1974, compared with that estimated in the Beeching Report.

Mr. Carmichael

British Rail estimates that the total rail-borne container traffic both in 1973 and 1974 was 7.7 million tonnes. The Beeching Report contained no forecasts of the container traffic which would be carried, but estimated the potential market at about 40 million tonnes in 1973.

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