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His retirement and consequent spare time enabled him to travel more.
1963 July, “News and Comment: Roller bearings for freight stock”, in Modern Railways, pages 5–6:
Elsewhere in this issue, for example, an article on the new pattern of freight train operation in the N.E.R. consequent upon the opening this summer of its three mechanised marshalling yards shows that one effect will be a further step-up in the speed of the East Coast main line freight traffic.