The Ulster Transport Authority staff are on strike and staging a sit-in at the main depot. This strike is one of several in relation to the publishing of the Benson Report which implemented sweeping changes to public transport in Northern Ireland. 

In 1962, on the recommendation of Dr Richard Beeching, the Government of Northern Ireland commissioned a senior Coopers & Lybrand accountant, Sir Henry Benson, to report on the future of the UTA's railways. In 1963 Benson submitted his report, which recommended closing all UTA railways except the Belfast commuter lines to Bangor and Larne and the main line between Belfast and Dublin, and the reduction of the main line between Portadown and Dundalk to single track.

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