LRT: heading for Victoria
18th August 1988, Page 14
18th August 1988
Page 14
Page 14, 18th August 1988
— LRT: heading for Victoria
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• London Regional Transport expects to take over Victoria Coach Station from the National Bus Company "in the next four weeks" and, according to LRT: "Any changes made will probably be of an interim nature because Victoria's life as a coach station is limited".
Victoria is Europe's largest coach station, and handles more than 13 million passengers a year. It was built in the 1930s with facilities designed to cope with 20 to 30 departures a day, taking about 30 passengers on each trip. Now, in peak season, Victoria has about 750 coaches leaving each day, many of them carrying up to 60 people.
LRT's takeover of Victoria Coach Station follows the privatisation of the 72 subsidiaries of the National Bus Company, of which Victoria is one.
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