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Show RAILWAY PROGRAM BEING CONSIDERED Great Britain Is Facing a Huge Task in Mapping Out proposed Reforms. LONDON, Aug. 9. (By the Associated Presd.) The vast scope of the work to be undertaken A3 soon as the rnuch-dlscuesed rnuch-dlscuesed transport bill is passed by parliament par-liament was outlined the other day in the house of commons by Sir JSrio Goddes, minister of ways and communications, who will head the next, extensive reforms and improvements, planned for the railways, rail-ways, roads and docks. The railway program pro-gram includes the following: Elimination of all competitive sen-ices given merely for the sake of competition. Common use by all lines of rolling stock. lCHmlnatlon of privately owned railway cars. Increase of traffic by judicious electrification electrifi-cation of certain lines. Increaso of the size of rolling stock, necessitating the alteration of station platform clearances, enlargement of the entrances to warehouses and the like. Standardization of rolling stock and locomotives. |