For  some  years  prior  to  the  outbreak  of  the  war  the  question  of  either


POOLING  OF  WAGONS:    RAILWAY-OWNED.  68i

a  pooling  or  a  common-user  of  railway  wagons  had  attracted  much
attention  among  the  Scottish  railway  companies,  partly  because  Scotland
seemed  to  constitute  an  especially  favourable  unit  for  the  making  of  an
experiment,  and  partly  because  of  the  reports  as  to  the  success  of  the
German  State  Railways'  Wagon-Union,  then  being  pointed  to  as  an
example  that  might  very  well  be  followed.
