Reducing Private-party Operation
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THE North Western Traffic Commis sinners were told at Crewe last week that an additional express service between Macclesfield, Cheshire and Great Yarmouth would help to reduce private. partyoperation in the area.
Messrs. E. J. Bostock and Sons, Congleton, and the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., sought joint operation of the service during the Saturdays of the Macclesfield annual holiday fortnight. The proposed return fare would be 13, and they wanted a joint allowance of six vehicles on any departure date.
There were no direct road services to Great Yarmouth from Macclesfield, said Mr. E. J. Rostock. If passengers were not able to book with his organization, there were numerous private parties which they could join. The trend was for people to take their holidays farther away from home.
For British Railways, who objected, Mr. G. H. P. Beames said that during the holiday fortnight special trains were put • on to take passengers to Guide Bridge, . where they could join an express train
;. for Great Yarmouth. In 1957, North ..Western had been refused a similar application through lack of evidence.
"We have made applications for extra vehicles in . an attempt to widen our gathering ground, but these have been refused," said Mr. W. Robinson, managing director of W. Robinson and Sons (Great Harwood), Ltd. They ran a nightly express service between Manchester and Great Yarmouth, leaving at 10 p.m., he pointed out.
Mr. Bostock replied that many people preferred to travel during the day, especially if they had young children.
Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said that he had to consider the railway facilities, Robinson's services, the existing services of North . Western and the facilities provided by private parties. He granted one vehicle to be operated jointly on each departure date, • and said that with this limit nobody would suffer abstraction.
GARAGE APPEAL FAILS
A N appeal by the partners in a private
hire coach business against the refusal of Rawmarsh Urban District Council to permit alterations to premises,• to enable a. 35-seat coach to be -garaged there, has been dismissed by the Minister of Housing and Local Government.
At a local inquiry it -was stated that it was the council's policy to prevent commercial undertakings being established in residential areas. In support of the application, by Mr. C. Johnson and Mr. J. T. Owen, it was stated that a coach had been housed in the outbuilding for some months without complaint.
The Minister stated that he considered the garaging.of a coach on the site would he detrimental to the neighbourhood.