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Rail: Beechings report; ***ALSO AVAILABLE AS FS270363006*** f) ENGLAND: BTC: INT CU Richard Beeching (report author) interview SOF: (Do you favour putting up surburban fares now?) "We would regard the surburban services, as we make clear in the report, falling into two parts, thos serving London, and those serving these other cities. In the case of London services, I think it would be wise to put up the fare fairly substantially and fairly soon". (On the redundancy of railway workers. If a man still wants to work on the railways will he be absorbed into other railway regions?) "We hope that we can absorb most of them. But we are afraid there will be some cases of difficulty. The point being this, that there is enough wastage pattern is not the same as the displacement pattern. And there will therefore be a problem of moving people about, and there will be I'm afraid, some cases where a satisfactory job can't be found for a man even if he does move. But we do hope that the total number of people who have to be discharged will be much smaller than the reduction in the number of jobs". (How much hardship will these changes cause in country districts?) "To passengers? Relatively little. But there will be some places of difficulty. Of course, these will be considered by the Transport Users Consultative Committee, and if there is though to be hardship, then arrangements will have to be made". Neg 16mm ITN 1.30 mins 56 ft 27.3.63 / 9pm