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ALTHOUGH railway speeds in Great Britain are generally good, the average speed at which a traveller could accomplish a series of random journeys by rail is likely to prove very disappointing. No doubt, many passengers ask themselves if something better were not possible, but seeing no solution to the problem, accept the position as inevitable. That it is a state of affairs which can be improved by a rational system of reorganization, leading possibly to the doubling of the average speed, is the contention put forward by Mr. J. F. Pownall in a booklet entitled “New Railway Network Principles” (Birmingham: Cotterell and Co. 2s.). This contains the gist of the chapters of a book dealing with one of two projects relating to waterways and railways in Great Britain which have had to be set aside to await the advent of better days.
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Railway Rationalization. Nature 147, 92 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147092a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147092a0