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at which representations were made by the Council on the subject of the charges to
be made for workmen's fares and season tickets on London railways.
The Tribunal in its judgment adopted, with a few minor modifications, the
proposals put forward by the railway companies for the standard charges to be made
in respect of goods, ordinary passenger fares and season ticket rates. As regards
workmen's fares the Tribunal approved a scale as follows :—
For each return journey where the single journey does not exceed
1 mile 2d.
For the next 3 miles or any part thereof Id. a mile.
„ „ 6 „ „ „ ¾d. „
„ „ 10 „ „ „ ½d. „
For the remainder of the distance ¼d. „
The effect of this decision is to produce a considerable reduction in the schedule
of workmen's fares proposed by the railway companies, though the standards art
largely in excess of those submitted by the Council. The new scales of charges
which come into operation on 1st January, 1928, are subject to revision at the enc
of the first complete financial year according as they produce more or less than the
standard revenue ascertained by the Tribunal.