But will this reduce the overcrowding in trains, make third-class tickets more easily available, reduce the railways' losses, increase wagon availability to customers, or improve the railways' relations with wagon-suppliers? It is their total obliviousness of these questions that casts doubt on the competence of railway management For instance, the railways, which had placed orders for 25,000 wagons in 1964-65, now plan to order only 3,875 wagons in 1971-72
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