£100,000 Station: Plans to Go On
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PLANS for a £100,000 new bus station at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, are not to be held up by a woman, whose house is on the proposed site. demanding £20,000 compensation. The council are going ahead with a compulsory purchase order against her, and have decided to take 'immediate steps about acquiring a further 2,322 sq. yd. of land.
Miss Mabel Shaw, of South Street, Ilkeston, has declared, however, that she will fight any proposal to compensate her with other than full market price for her home.
Ilkeston, midway between Nottingham and Derby, is served by four companies operating stage-carriage licences. At present their services terminate on the open market-place, but Saturday market day causes termini to be distributed in side streets.
ULSTER BOOKINGS UP
ADVANCE bookings for holidays in Ulster were nearly 100 per cent. higher than last year, the traffic manager of a British coach operating company has told officials of Ulster Tourist Board. He qualified his remarks, however, by adding that transport charges by the Ulster Transport Authority were so heavy that his company were offering cheaper tours to the Continent.
Both the Sheffield United Tours and Frames concerns are to ship their coaches to Northern Ireland. The vehicles will collect passengers from the airport, and provide transport for the rest of their stay.
04,000 GEARBOX ORDERS
ORDERS to the value of more than £54,000 have been received for the new David Brown 657 six-speed gearbox since it was announced a month ago.