L.N.E.R. WINS DUPLICATION CASE
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THE Minister of Transport has upheld the appeal of the L.N.E. Railway Co. against conditions as to duplication granted by the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner on a joint London-Doncaster service operated by the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd., -Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., and East Midland Motor Services, Ltd. The railway also appealed against the Yorkshire Commissioners' decision. affecting the same service.
During the inquiry, reference was made „to the large number of duplicate vehicles operated on this service on certain occasions 'during 1935. The Minister points out that, whether this action was or was not technically a breach of the licence conditions, it was clearly contrary to the spirit of the Minister's earlier decision on duplication.
The Commissioners are ordered to restrict duplication to the maximum contemplated in the. earlier appeal relating, inter alia, to this service. The Commissioners are authorized to adjust, from time to time, the amount of duplication allowed.
MANSFIELD CO. SEEKS FREEDOM.
BY its Act of 1929, Mansfield District Traction Co. was authorized to abandon the existing tramways in the borough of Mansfield and the urban districts of Mansfield, Woodhouse and Sutton-in-Ashfield, and to substitute trelleybuses. The company was also authorized to run buses along the
tramway routes and on other routes in the district.
Although the tramways have been abandoned, the tracks removed and this roads restored, the company has not introduced trolleybuses, and the power to do so has now expired. The concern now seeks to repeal those provisions of the Act which restrict the area within which buses may be run, and proposes that, subject to the provisions of Part 4 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, passenger services may be operated without restriction as to area.
LONDON TRANSPORT EASTERN BUS SERVICES REORGANIZED.
THE second part of the reorganization of bus routes in the Barking, Dagenham, "Hornchurch and Rornford districts came into operation on Wed
nesday. This completes the largest district revision of bus services undertaken by London Transport.