TIME TRAVELLER
Sep 17, 2018
2 minutes
50 YEARS AGO...OCTOBER 1968
■ The Transport Act 1968 received royal assent on October 25 after years of campaigning and debate, creating a number of local and national organisations with the aim of better organising rail and road transport. British Railways had to hand over control of any freight traffic that originated by road – such as parcels and Freightliners – to the National Freight Corporation. Passenger
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