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Minutes 808 - 815

DIESEL TRAINS COMMITTEE

Minutes of 78th Meeting held at Euston,
Thursday, October 20th, 1960

PRESENT:-

Mr.  W.O. Reynolds, Planning Officer, Euston (Chairman)
Mr. P.R. Andrews, for Economic Survey Officer, Euston
Mr. J.J. Cumming, Assistant Engineer (New Works), Euston
Mr. D.M. Howes, Acting Assistant Operating Officer, Euston
Mr. A.J. Johnson, Acting Commercial Officer, Euston
Mr. V.R. Riley, Assistant to Regional Accountant, Euston
Mr. A.T. Salmon, Assistant Public Relations an Publicity Officer, Euston
Mr. E. Stanley, Mechanical and Electrical Engineer (Maintenance), Derby
Mr. L.D. Taylor, Acting Motive Power Officer, Euston
Mr. R. Tildesley, Assistant Divisional Traffic Manager, London
Mr. R. Varley, Assistant to General Manager (Special Duties), Euston
Mr. C. Lakin, General Manager's Office, Euston (Secretary)

Mr. R.L. M'Olmoyle, Assistant Civil Engineer (New Works),
attended fot Minute No.811

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808. MINUTES OF MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1960

Agreed.

809. GENERAL MATTERS OF POLICY

1. Position of Schemes still to be submitted

(a) Assessment of Parcels Receipts

Following the departmental meetings held on August 29th and September 15th, consideration was given to the difficulties met in assessing the receipts attributable to Diesel Multiple Unit Schemes in the Manchester Area, particularly those arising where trains from more than one scheme run over the same line.

As the parcels traffic in the area is heavy and the receipts likely to affect materially the net revenues of the schemes, it was agreed that special efforts must be made to obtain reasonable assessments of the receipts attributable to the services in each scheme.  It was appreciated that this would involve, for several schemes, the counting of the numbers of parcels loaded into and unloaded out of trains at a number of stations.  full use should, however, be made of the knowledge and experience of local parcels officials to provide, where possible, broad estimates of the numbers required, with a view to reducing the counting work to a minimum.

Similar arrangements should be made for schemes, other than those in the Manchester Area, to be dealt with in the future and in the meantime preparation of all necessary particulars for the proposals other than parcels receipts should proceed.


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