A viewer attributes slow British rail movement to the absence of one automatic-brake arrangement. British railways did have braking systems and could move traffic quickly within their own operating framework. Their performance should not be judged solely by whether they copied another country's preferred technology. Rail was capable and important, but it still lacked the capacity to replace all bulk movement by sea.
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British railway practice did not make trains universally slow
Britain's braking practice did not force wartime trains to move very slowly, though coastal shipping remained necessary.