THE G.W.R. AND S.R. INTERCHANGEABLE-TICKET SCHEME
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Details of the New Arrangements Affeoting Long-distance Motor-coach Services AS announced briefly in our issue for ,last week, quite an extensive roadrail interchangeable-ticket scheme has been :introduced by the Great Western Railway and Southern Railway companies as from April 2nd. An important development in this direction has been anticipated in transport circles for some time and the announcement was timed
to take effect just before the Easter holiday, when it would afford a valuable added facility to the thousands of people who travel between London and the south and west country at Easter.
The arrangement is that the return portions of road-travel tickets, issued, in connection with the services of the National Omnibus and Transport Co., Ltd., by London Coastal Coaches, Ltd., also the return portions of road-travel tickets issued by the Western National
Omnibus Co., Ltd., and the Southern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., from certain townsin the south and-west to London, will be available for the return journey (third class) by the ordinary express train services of the Southern Railway and the Great Western Railway companies. The return halves of tickets have to be surrendered at the railway booking offices, rail exchange tickets being issued in their stead, and a supplement has to be paid before the railway journey is commenced.
As an additional facility to passengers, those who travel outward by motor coach and wish to return by rail are entitled to take advantage of the railway companies' luggage-in-advance arrangements in respect of the return journey. This is actually the first time that either of these two railway companies has instituted interaVailability of rail and motor-coach tickets in respect of long-distance journeys, and it is plainly seen that the companies are doing their utmost to overcome the difficulties of instituting such arrangements so as to afford holiday makers the best of both forms of transport.
The above facilities of interavailability operate between London and the following towns :—Barnstaple, Bodmiu, Falmouth, Ilfracombe, Launceston, Lyn
ton and Lynmouth, Minehead, Newquay, Penzance, St. Ives, Taunton, Weymouth, Bideford, Bude, Okehanipton and Swanage.